Longitudinal compression: A "new" complication with modern coronary stent platforms - Time to think beyond deliverability?

EuroIntervention

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 872-877

  Hanratty, Colm G ^a   Walsh, Simon J ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPRESSION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LONGITUDINAL STENT COMPRESSION; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 80155191186     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV7I7A135     Document Type: Article

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