Looking to the femoral rather than the carotid bifurcation to predict obstructive coronary artery disease?

Grigorios Korosoglou^{1

2}, Nasser Maylar³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine & Pneumology, GRN Hospital Weinheim, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
² Cardiac Imaging Center Weinheim, Hector Foundation, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Cardiology I - Coronary and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Heart Failure, University Hospital Muenster, Cardiology, Munster, Germany.

Editorial

Grigorios Korosoglou et al. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;37(10):2975-2977.

doi: 10.1007/s10554-021-02361-6. Epub 2021 Jul 27.

Grigorios Korosoglou^{1

2}, Nasser Maylar³

¹ Department of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine & Pneumology, GRN Hospital Weinheim, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
² Cardiac Imaging Center Weinheim, Hector Foundation, Weinheim, Germany. gkorosoglou@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Cardiology I - Coronary and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Heart Failure, University Hospital Muenster, Cardiology, Munster, Germany.

No abstract available

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