A novel approach to facilitating balloon crossing chronic total occlusions: The "wire-cutting" technique

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 297-303

  Hu, Xin Qun ^a   Tang, Liang ^a   Zhou, Sheng Hua ^a   Fang, Zhen Fei ^a   Shen, Xiang Qian ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISSECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY OCCLUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862809664     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2012.00721.x     Document Type: Article

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