Enhancing back-up support during difficult coronary stent delivery: Single-center case series of experience with the heartrail II catheter

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hynes, Brian ^a,b   Dollard, James ^a   Murphy, Grainne ^a   O'Sullivan, John ^a   Ruggiero, Nicholas ^b   Margey, Ronan ^b   Kiernan, Thomas J ^b   McFadden, Eugene ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THORAX PAIN; X RAY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CATHETERS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 79960045728     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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