Treatment of chronic total coronary occlusions by the subintimal tracking and reentry modified technique. The contrast-guided STAR technique;Trattamento delle occlusioni croniche totali delle coronarie mediante la tecnica subintimal tracking and reentry (STAR) modificata. La tecnica STAR guidata dal contrasto

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 11, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 584-589

  Garibaldi, Salvatore ^a   Godino, Cosmo ^b,c   Carlino, Mauro ^b   Mussardo, Marco ^b   Latib, Azeem ^b   Costanzo, Luca ^d   Tomasello, Davide ^a   Lo Schiavo, Armando E ^a   Evola, Rosario ^a   Tamburino, Corrado ^d   Galassi, Alfredo R ^d   Colombo, Antonio ^b,c  

^a UO di Cardiologia   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c EMO GVM CENTRO CUORE COLUMBUS   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Ferrarotto   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; Coronary occlusions; Stents

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECANALIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; STENT THROMBOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956015847     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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