Unprotected left main "kissing" stent implantation with a percutaneous ventricular assist device

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 683-684

  Naidu, Srihari S ^a   Rohatgi, Sameer ^a   Herrmann, Howard C ^a   Glaser, Ruchira ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PULSE PRESSURE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 8844256564     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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