Percutaneous coronary intervention for small vessel coronary artery disease

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-198

  Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe ^a   Moretti, Claudio ^a   Abbate, Antonio ^b   Sheiban, Imad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Drug eluting stent; PTCA; Stent

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN; ZOTAROLIMUS; METAL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BALLOON DILATATION; BARE METAL STENT; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BYPASS SURGERY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENT; SURVIVAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954338717     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2009.04.007     Document Type: Review

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