Are the culprit lesions severely stenotic?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1108-1114

  Niccoli, Giampaolo ^a   Stefanini, Giulio G ^b   Capodanno, Davide ^c   Crea, Filippo ^a   Ambrose, John A ^d   Berg, Ryan ^d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; angiographic stenosis; angiography; intracoronary imaging; stenosis severity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CORONARY REPERFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIBRINOLYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NOTE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ANGIOGRAPHIC STENOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; INTRACORONARY IMAGING; STENOSIS SEVERITY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886023942     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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