Successful recanalization of a chronic occluded left anterior descending coronary artery with a modification of the retrograde proximal true lumen puncture technique: The antegrade microcatheter probing technique

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 272-275

  Christ, Günter ^a   Glogar, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chronic total occlusion; Coronary heart disease; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY PERFORATION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; STENT;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; PUNCTURES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60649092747     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21755     Document Type: Article

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