Collateral Damage: Sufficient Coronary Collaterals Provide Important, Yet Limited, Protection in Chronic Total Occlusions

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¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: wfearon@stanford.edu.

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Rushi V Parikh et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017.

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. 2017 Mar 27;10(6):594-596.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.01.010.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: wfearon@stanford.edu.

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Keywords: chronic total occlusion; collaterals; fractional flow reserve.

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Coronary Collaterals Function and Clinical Outcome Between Patients With Acute and Chronic Total Occlusion.
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