Tornus catheter and rotational atherectomy in resistant chronic total occlusions

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2653-2656

  Pagnotta, Paolo ^a   Briguori, Carlo ^b   Ferrante, Giuseppe ^a   Visconti, Gabriella ^b   Focaccio, Amelia ^b   Belli, Guido ^a   Presbitero, Patrizia ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Unit of Reproductive Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Chronic total occlusion; Coronary artery disease; Rotablator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE; DEVICE SAFETY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATIONAL ATHERECTOMY DEVICE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANGIOPLASTY; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ROTABLATOR;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY OCCLUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883783972     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.06.124     Document Type: Article

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