Is Accurate Intravascular Ultrasound Evaluation of the Left Circumflex Ostium from a Left Anterior Descending to Left Main Pullback Possible?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 948-954

  Oviedo, Carlos ^a   Maehara, Akiko ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Tsujita, Kenichi ^a   Kubo, Takashi ^a   Doi, Hiroshi ^a   Castellanos, Celia ^a   Lansky, Alexandra J ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a   Dangas, George ^a   Leon, Martin B ^a   Stone, Gregg W ^a   Templin, Barry ^b   Araki, Hiroshi ^c   Ochiai, Masahiko ^c   Moses, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b ABBOTT VASCULAR   (United States)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT MAIN CORONARY ARTERY BIFURCATION DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77949570580     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.11.029     Document Type: Article

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