Percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of unprotected left main coronary artery disease
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Percutaneous coronary intervention in unprotected left main coronary artery disease.
Percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected left main coronary artery disease is potentially an important intervention in surgically unstable patients. A detailed review of medical record and visual analysis of coronary angiography and PCI procedure was undertaken. The study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, from January 2003 to December 2007. Patients included in the st...
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Department of Cardiology, College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur-10, Chitwan, Nepal Correspondence: Dr Laxman Dubey, Department of Cardiology, College of Medical Sciences and Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur-10, Chitwan, Nepal. Telephone 977-9851123288, e-mail [email protected] The prevalence of left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease is low. Approximately 4% to 7% of patien...
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BACKGROUND The SYNTAX score (SXscore) has been proposed recently as a valuable tool to characterize the coronary vasculature prospectively with respect to the number of lesions and their functional impact, location, and complexity. However, the prognostic value of SXscores in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main artery has not been validated. METHODS AND RES...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Research: Cardiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2368-0512
DOI: 10.4172/2368-0512.1000013