Impact of intravascular ultrasound guidance on long-term mortality in stenting for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-177

  Park, Seung Jung ^a   Kim, Young Hak ^a   Park, Duk Woo ^a   Lee, Seung Whan ^a   Kim, Won Jang ^a   Suh, Jon ^a   Yun, Sung Cheol ^a   Lee, Cheol Whan ^a   Hong, Myeong Ki ^a   Lee, Jae Hwan ^b   Park, Seong Wook ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Imaging; Left main coronary artery; Stents; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGISTRIES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 69049095006     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.108.799494     Document Type: Article

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