Letter to the editor: Culotte stenting with bioabsorbable everolimus-eluting stents

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ruzsa, Zoltán ^b   Van Der Linden, Marc ^a   Van Mieghem, Nicolas M ^a   Regar, Evelyn ^a   Ligthart, Jurgen M ^a   Serruys, Patrick ^a   Van Geuns, Robert Jan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bioabsorbable everolimus eluting stent (BVS); Chronic total occlusion (CTO); Coronary bifurcation; Drug eluting stents (DES); Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Indexed keywords

DRUG DERIVATIVE; EVEROLIMUS; RAPAMYCIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BIOABSORBABLE EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT (BVS); BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION (CTO); CORONARY BIFURCATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENTS (DES); HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

BIOABSORBABLE EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING STENT (BVS); CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION (CTO); CORONARY BIFURCATION; DRUG ELUTING STENTS (DES); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT);

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANGINA PECTORIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 84885326152     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.05.026     Document Type: Article

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