Usefulness of a 6 Fr right Judkins catheter for mechanically extracting a massive intracoronary thrombus from a ectasic right coronary artery: A report on two different cases of thrombectomy

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 673-678

  Onoda, Satoru ^a   Mutoh, Makoto ^a   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Junichi ^a   Okada, Hisayuki ^a   Tsurusaki, Tetsushi ^a   Kubota, Takeyuki ^a   Takizawa, Shinichiro ^a   Yagi, Hidenori ^b   Mori, Chikara ^b   Nagasawa, Hidetaka ^b   Shibata, Takahiro ^b   Yoshida, Satoru ^b   Imai, Kamon ^a   Horie, Toshinobu ^a   Mochizuki, Seibu ^b  

^a SAITAMA CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY CENTER   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary ectasia; Myocardial infarction; No reflow phenomenon; Thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THROMBECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; INSTRUMENTATION; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6344233429     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.45.673     Document Type: Article

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