Novel uses of the proxis embolic protection catheter

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 438-445

  Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a,b   Banerjee, Subhash ^a,b  

^a VA North Texas Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass grafts coronary; New devices; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANGINA PECTORIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EMBOLISM; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLIABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESTENOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLIABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350491098     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22018     Document Type: Article

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