The use of excimer laser for complex coronary artery lesions

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69.e1-69.e8

  Ben Dor, Itsik ^a   Maluenda, Gabriel ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Gallino, Robert ^a   Lindsay, Joseph ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex coronary lesions; Excimer laser

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CREATINE KINASE MB; HIRULOG; IRIDIUM 192; TROPONIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DIZZINESS; EXCIMER LASER CORONARY ATHERECTOMY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; IRRADIATION; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTENOSIS; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 78651445674     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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