Coronary angioplasty is the first-line treatment for chronic total occlusions;L'angioplastica è il trattamento di prima scelta dell'occlusione coronarica cronica

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 412-417

  Godino, Cosmo ^a,b   Colombo, Antonio ^a,b  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b EMO GVM CENTRO CUORE COLUMBUS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC PATIENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; NOTE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MORTALITY; STENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649182890     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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