Retrograde Procedural Planning, Skills Development, and How to Set Up a Base of Operations

Interventional Cardiology Clinics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 325-338

  Spratt, James C ^a   Strange, Julian W ^b  

^a FORTH VALLEY ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiography; Chronic total occlusion; Retrograde access; Skills development

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROGRADE PROCEDURE; REVIEW; SKILL; SURGEON; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84862857735     PISSN: 22117458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccl.2012.05.001     Document Type: Review

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