Below-the-knee/ankle revascularization: Tools of the trade

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 613-616

  Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe G L ^a   Sangiorgi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ATHERECTOMY; BARE METAL STENT; BELOW THE ANKLE ARTERIAL OCCLUSION; BELOW THE KNEE ARTERIAL OCCLUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; CRYOSURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DORSAL PEDAL ARTERY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GUIDE WIRE; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PLANTAR ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVASCULARIZATION; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY; SUBINTIMAL ANGIOPLASTY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOSPASM; AMPUTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 71949117343     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: 15451550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/09-2793C1.1     Document Type: Note

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