Diffuse atherosclerotic left main coronary artery disease unmasked by fractal geometric law applied to quantitative coronary angiography: An angiographic and intravascular ultrasound study

EuroIntervention

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 709-715

  Motreff, Pascal ^a   Rioufol, Gilles ^b   Gilard, Martine ^c   Caussin, Christophe ^d   Ouchchane, Lemlih ^a   Souteyrand, Geraud ^a   Finet, Gerard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

Author keywords

Fractal geometric law; IVUS; Left main disease

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77956072790     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV5I6A117     Document Type: Article

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