@article{5226b7db860c47b6bccb31b6a3caa8e2,
title = "Visualization of stents in the left anterior descending coronary artery by transthoracic echocardiography in pigs and humans",
abstract = "In this study, we demonstrate that coronary artery stents can be visualized by transthoracic 2-dimensional echocardiography. We were able to image stents in the left anterior descending coronary artery in 6 of 6 pigs and in 6 of 7 patients studied.",
author = "Yochai Birnbaum and Aurelio Chaux and Huai Luo and Tomoo Nagai and Tasneem Naqvi and Siegel, {Robert J.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Lee E. Siegel, M.D., Memorial Fund, the Save a Heart Foundation, and the Western Cardiac Foundation, Beverly Hills, California. ",
year = "1998",
month = jan,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00872-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "81",
pages = "229--231",
journal = "American Journal of Cardiology",
issn = "0002-9149",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "2",
}