A randomized trial comparing coronary angioplasty with coronary bypass surgery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 331, Issue 16, 1994, Pages 1044-1050

  King, Spencer B ^a   Lembo, Nicholas J ^a   Weintraub, William S ^a   Alazraki, Naomi P ^b   Guyton, Robert A ^c   Kosinski, Andrzej S ^d   Barnhart, Huiman X ^d   Kutner, Michael H ^d   Zhao, Xue Qiao ^e  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b Division of Interventional Radiology   (United States)

^c Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

^d University School of Medicine   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0028075599     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199410203311602     Document Type: Article

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