Crossing of a calcified "balloon uncrossable" coronary chronic total occlusion facilitated by a laser catheter: A case report and review recent four years' experience at the Thoraxcenter

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-254

  Shen, Zhu Jun ^a   García García, Hector M ^a   Schultz, Carl ^a   Van Der Ent, Martin ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; Excimer laser; Total occlusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 78650004209     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.08.028     Document Type: Article

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