Coronary stent fracture: A cause of cardiac chest pain?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Adlakha, Satjit ^a   Sheikh, Mujeeb ^a   Bruhl, Steven ^a   Eltahawy, Ehab ^a   Pandya, Utpal ^a   Colyer, William ^a   Cooper, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug eluting stent; Left main stent; Stent fracture

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STENT THROMBOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77952242665     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.135     Document Type: Article

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