Prevalence of left main coronary artery disease among patients with ischemic heart disease: Insights from the Tehran Angiography Registry

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-183

  Soleimani, A ^a   Abbasi, A ^a   Kazzazi, E H ^a   Hosseini, K ^a   Salirifar, M ^a   Darabian, S ^a   Sadeghian, S ^a   Sheikhfathollahi, M ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndrome; Angina pectoris; Angiography; Left main coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 67649580762     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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