Left Main Coronary Artery Stenting. Crossing the Rubicon

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 53, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1769-1772

  Alfonso, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

drug eluting stents; left main coronary artery; paclitaxel; restenosis; sirolimus

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SUDDEN DEATH;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PACLITAXEL; SIROLIMUS; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 65349138307     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.02.017     Document Type: Editorial

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