Three-dimensional analysis of vulnerable segments in the left anterior descending artery

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 199-206

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a,c   Pantos, Ioannis ^a,b   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Hadjipavlou, Marios ^c   Tzanalaridou, Efthalia ^a   Lockie, Timothy ^c   Redwood, Simon ^c   Voridis, Eutychios ^a   Efstathopoulos, Efstathios P ^b  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Myocardial infarction; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 66349108517     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e32832397fe     Document Type: Review

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