Use of the Stingray® guidewire and the Venture® catheter for crossing flush coronary chronic total occlusions due to in-stent restenosis

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-394

  Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a   Lombardi, William B ^b   Banerjee, Subhash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b St Joseph's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic total occlusion; Devices; Drug eluting stent; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; GUIDE WIRE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; CATHETER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RESTENOSIS; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CATHETERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956832808     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22480     Document Type: Article

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