Successful retrograde treatment of a mid left anterior descending artery chronic total occlusion using a novel "guide parallel to wire" technique

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-331

  Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a   Banerjee, Subhash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass grafts coronary; New devices; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY STENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUNCTURES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 65549128796     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21805     Document Type: Article

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