A randomized study of coronary angioplasty compared with bypass surgery in patients with symptomatic multivessel coronary disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 331, Issue 16, 1994, Pages 1037-1043

  Hamm, Christian W ^a   Reimers, Jacobus ^a   Bleifeld, Walter ^a   Berger, Jurgen ^b   Ischinger, Thomas ^c   Rupprecht, Hans Jurgen ^d  

^a Department of Cardiology ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CATECHOLAMINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0027960727     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199410203311601     Document Type: Article

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