A multicenter experience evaluating chronic total occlusion crossing with the Wildcat catheter (the CONNECT study)

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1615-1621

  Pigott, John P ^a   Raja, M Laiq ^b   Davis, Tom ^c  

^a Jobst Vascular Institute   (United States)

^b El Paso Cardiology Associates   (United States)

^c ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMOROPOPLITEAL CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECANALIZATION; RESTENOSIS; SAFETY; WILDCAT CATHETER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CATHETERS; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870251312     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2012.06.071     Document Type: Article

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