International Journal of Cardiology
Volume 127, Issue 2 , Pages 179-185, 4 July 2008

Is it possible to predict which patients need distal protection during primary angioplasty?

  • Hisashi Umeda

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Toyota Memorial Hospital, 1-1 Heiwa-cho, Toyota 471-8513, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 565 28 0100; fax: +81 565 24 7170.
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  • Mitsunori Iwase

      Affiliations

    • Division of Integrated Medicine, Toyota Memorial Hospital, Toyota, Japan
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  • Hideo Izawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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  • Toshiaki Katoh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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  • Tomoko Gochi

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Ichinomiya, Japan
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  • Junji Toyama

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Ichinomiya, Japan
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  • Masaki Yokoya

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Ichinomiya, Japan
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  • Toyoaki Matsushita

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Ichinomiya, Japan
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  • Ryoji Ishiki

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Toyota Memorial Hospital, 1-1 Heiwa-cho, Toyota 471-8513, Japan
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  • Haruo Inagaki

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Toyota Memorial Hospital, 1-1 Heiwa-cho, Toyota 471-8513, Japan
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  • Toyoaki Murohara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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  • Mitsuhiro Yokota

      Affiliations

    • Department of Genome Science, Aichi-Gakuin University, School of Dentistry, Nagoya, Japan

Received 26 November 2006; received in revised form 5 March 2007; accepted 25 April 2007. published online 10 August 2007.

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PII: S0167-5273(07)01034-0

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.04.076

International Journal of Cardiology
Volume 127, Issue 2 , Pages 179-185, 4 July 2008