Compensatory enlargement of the left main coronary artery: Insights from the PROSPECT study

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 98-103

  Inaba, Shinji ^a,b   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Shimizu, Takehisa ^a,b   Weisz, Giora ^a,b   Mehran, Roxana ^a,c   Marso, Steven P ^d   Xu, Ke ^a   De Bruyne, Bernard ^e   Serruys, Patrick W ^f   Stone, Gregg W ^a,b   Maehara, Akiko ^a,b  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

compensatory enlargement; intravascular ultrasound; left main coronary artery

Indexed keywords

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHENOTYPE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84894081286     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0000000000000074     Document Type: Article

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