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Percutaneous coronary intervention [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter covers percutaneous coronary intervention. It starts with the history of the procedure, indications, and techniques for imaging the lesion, and describes different systems of lesion classification. The equipment required for percutaneous coronary intervention, including guiding catheters, angioplasty guide wires, angioplasty balloons, and ...
Andrew Mitchell +2 more
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Elevated Baseline Serum Fibrinogen: Effect on 2-Year Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. [PDF]
, 2017 BackgroundElevated fibrinogen is associated with short-term major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) after percutaneous coronary intervention, but the relation with late MACE is unknown.Methods and resultsBaseline demographics and 2-year MACE were ...
Ang, Lawrence +7 more
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Collateral donor artery physiology and the influence of a chronic total occlusion on fractional flow reserve [PDF]
, 2015 Background— The presence of a concomitant chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) and a large collateral contribution might alter the fractional flow reserve (FFR) of an interrogated vessel, rendering the FFR unreliable at predicting ischemia should the ...
Alahmar, A. +15 more
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Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources, 2019 Despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, there remains evidence of a disparity in the outcomes for women when compared with men.
Usha Rao, G Louise Buchanan, Angela Hoye
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Drug-eluting balloon: is it useful?
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2020 Background Coronary artery disease is one of the major issues in the medical world around the globe. The prevalence tends to increase. The use of coronary intervention is one of the ways often used in the management of coronary artery disease due to its ...
Sidhi Laksono +2 more
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Bilaterally symmetrical congenital absence of radial artery: a case report [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The radial artery is used for the access of coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention, as well as for coronary artery bypass surgery. Variations of upper limb arteries are common, however, congenital absence of radial artery
Jing-yuan Mao, Lei Shao, Ying Zheng
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Facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention [PDF]
Heart, 2005 Multiple, large randomised trials comparing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with fibrinolytic therapy for ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have shown that primary PCI results in lower rates of death, reinfarction, and stroke.1 Consequently, primary PCI has become the preferred reperfusion strategy for STEMI.
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Impact of incomplete percutaneous revascularization in patients With multivessel coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Up to half of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention have multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) with conflicting data regarding optimal revascularization strategy in such patients.
Bagur, Rodrigo +12 more
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Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi, 2016 red cell distribution width and contrast-induced nephropathy in patients underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention red cell distribution width and contrast-induced nephropathy in patients underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention ...
Somsri Wiwanitkit, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Infarct size and left ventricular remodelling after preventive percutaneous coronary intervention [PDF]
, 2016 Objective: We hypothesised that, compared with culprit-only primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), additional preventive PCI in selected patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction with multivessel disease would not be associated with ...
Berry, Colin +13 more
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