Drug-eluting stent fracture: Incidence, contributing factors, and clinical implications

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-245

  Canan, Timothy ^a   Lee, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug eluting stent; Restenosis; Stent fracture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT FRACTURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGIDITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENT THROMBOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACLITAXEL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SIROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 76049118482     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22212     Document Type: Article

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