Bail-out reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde subintimal tracking accompanied by multiple complications in coronary chronic total occlusion

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Suh, Jon ^a   Cho, Yoon Haeng ^a   Lee, Nae Hee ^a,b  

^a Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chronic total occlusion; Complication; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Reverse CART technique

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SMOKING; STENT THROMBOSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBUS ASPIRATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 57449098418     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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