Current diagnosis and management of left main coronary disease

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 420-428

  Chikwe, Joanna ^a   Kim, Michael ^b   Goldstone, Andrew B ^a   Fallahi, Arzhang ^b   Athanasiou, Thanos ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Coronary artery; Left main stem; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERITIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY GRAFT; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY BRUIT; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; OFF PUMP SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77957256112     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2010.03.003     Document Type: Review

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