Left main coronary artery ostial disease: Prognostic role of the gap-angle ratio

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular and Endoluminal Interventions, Rovigo General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy. jackyheart@libero.it.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ferrara, School of Medicine, Ferrara, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiology, Alexandrovska University, School of Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Gianluca Rigatelli et al. Cardiol J. 2020.

. 2020;27(6):888-890.

doi: 10.5603/CJ.a2020.0163. Epub 2020 Nov 17.

¹ Section of Cardiovascular and Endoluminal Interventions, Rovigo General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy. jackyheart@libero.it.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ferrara, School of Medicine, Ferrara, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiology, Alexandrovska University, School of Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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