Limitations of embolic protection in saphenous vein graft intervention: Insights from 202 consecutive patients

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-246

  Matar, Fadi A ^a,b,f   Smith, Karen ^c   Rossi, Peter ^d   Vandormael, Michel ^e   Sullebarger, John T ^b   Taylor, Marc ^b   Caruncho, Charmaine ^a   Ali, Tarik ^a   Kerensky, Rick ^c  

^a Cardioquest   (United States)

^b TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Medical Center at Bayonet Point   (United States)

^e Bay Pines Veterans Administration Hospital   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL EMBOLIC PROTECTION DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; RHEOLYTIC THROMBECTOMY; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; THROMBUS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 66749189135     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2009.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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