Treatment of subacute and chronic thrombotic occlusions of lower extremity peripheral arteries with the excimer laser: A feasibility study

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 211-214

  Shammas, Nicolas W ^a   Weissman, Neil J ^b   Coiner, Denise ^a   Shammas, Gail A ^a   Dippel, Eric ^a   Jerin, Michael ^c  

^a MIDWEST CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal embolization; Excimer laser; Intravascular ultrasound; Peripheral arterial disease; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCIMER LASER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; FILTER; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY; LEG ISCHEMIA; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, EXCIMER; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84864147492     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: 18780938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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