Coronary collateral circulation: Its relevance

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 915-928

  Karrowni, Wassef ^a   El Accaoui, Ramzi N ^a   Chatterjee, Kanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; total occlusions; vascular biology

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY REPERFUSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY OCCLUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84887322346     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.24910     Document Type: Article

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