Comparison of Angiographic and Intravascular Ultrasonic Detection of Myocardial Bridging of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1608-1613

  Tsujita, Kenichi ^a   Maehara, Akiko ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Doi, Hiroshi ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Castellanos, Celia ^a   Liu, Jian ^a   Yang, Junqing ^a   Oviedo, Carlos ^a   Franklin Bond, Theresa ^a   Dasgupta, Neil ^a   Biro, Sinan ^a   Dani, Lokesh ^a   Dangas, George D ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a   Kirtane, Ajay J ^a   Lansky, Alexandra J ^a   Kreps, Edward M ^a   Collins, Michael B ^a   Stone, Gregg W ^a   Moses, Jeffrey W ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a   more..

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 57649101672     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.07.054     Document Type: Article

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