Optimizing outcomes during left main percutaneous coronary intervention with intravascular ultrasound and fractional flow reserve: The current state of evidence

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 697-707

  Puri, Rishi ^a   Kapadia, Samir R ^a   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a   Harvey, James E ^a   Kataoka, Yu ^a   Tuzcu, E Murat ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

fractional flow reserve; intravascular ultrasound; left main coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; EPICARDIUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864068305     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2012.02.018     Document Type: Review

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