Evaluation of culprit saphenous vein graft lesions with optical coherence tomography in patients with acute coronary syndromes

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 683-693

  Davlouros, Periklis ^a   Damelou, Anastasia ^a   Karantalis, Vasileios ^a   Xanthopoulou, Ioanna ^a   Mavronasiou, Eleni ^a   Tsigkas, Grigorios ^a   Hahalis, George ^a   Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndrome(s); optical coherence tomography; saphenous vein graft

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUPTURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; ULCER; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VEIN GRAFT DEGENERATION; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; RUPTURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79959504091     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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