Retrograde recanalization of native coronary artery chronic occlusions via acutely occluded vein grafts

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-113

  Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a   Banerjee, Subhash ^a   Lombardi, William L ^b  

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

^b St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafts; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RECANALIZATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY OCCLUSION; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74249103052     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22196     Document Type: Article

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