Techniques to enhance guide catheter support

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 505-512

  Di Mario, Carlo ^a   Ramasami, Nandakumar ^b  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAYDAY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PATIENT SAFETY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 58149218714     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21670     Document Type: Article

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