"Armored" aspiration catheter technique to enhance aspiration catheter delivery in challenging thrombus-containing lesions

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 846-849

  Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a   Lichtenwalter, Christopher ^a   Banerjee, Subhash ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bypass grafts coronary; Devices; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; HEPARIN; TIROFIBAN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASPIRATION CATHETER; BARE METAL STENT; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STENT THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENTS; SUCTION; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73249120646     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22119     Document Type: Article

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