Intracoronary and noninvasive imaging for prediction of distal embolization and periprocedural myocardial infarction during native coronary artery percutaneous intervention

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1102-1114

  Patel, Vishal G ^a   Brayton, Kimberly M ^b   Mintz, Gary S ^c   Maehara, Akiko ^c   Banerjee, Subhash ^a   Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Intravascular imaging; Myocardial infarction; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY PRESSURE; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EMBOLIZATION; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 84892145931     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000448     Document Type: Article

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