Culotte stenting technique in coronary bifurcation disease: Angiographic follow-up using dedicated quantitative coronary angiographic analysis and 12-month clinical outcomes

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2868-2876

  Adriaenssens, Tom ^a,b   Byrne, Robert A ^a   Dibra, Alban ^a   Iijima, Raisuke ^a   Mehilli, Julinda ^a   Bruskina, Olga ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a   Kastrati, Adnan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Culotte technique; Double stenting technique; In stent restenosis; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Quantitative coronary angiography; Stent thrombosis

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BIFURCATION; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55749116201     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn512     Document Type: Article

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