Letter by alfonso et al regarding article, "impact of intravascular ultrasound guidance on long-term mortality in stenting for unprotected left main coronary artery stenosis"

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Alfonso, Fernando ^a   Dutary, Jaime ^a   Zakhem, Brian ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT THROMBOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77952390758     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.109.889063     Document Type: Letter

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