Subintimal distal anchor technique for "balloon-uncrossable" chronic total occlusions

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 552-554

  Michael, Tesfaldet T ^a   Banerjee, Subhash ^a   Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic total occlusions; complications; PCI

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MICROCATHETER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; VASCULAR GUIDE WIRE;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY OCCLUSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 84885446668     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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