Documentation of decline in morbidity in women undergoing coronary angioplasty (A report from the 1993-94 NHLBI percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty registry)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 979-984

  Jacobs, Alice K ^a   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^b   Yeh, Wanlin ^b   Holmes Jr , David R ^b   Block, Peter C ^b   Cowley, Michael J ^b   Bourassa, Martial G ^b   Williams, David O ^b   King III, Spencer B ^b   Faxon, David P ^b   Myler, Richard ^b   Detre, Katherine M ^b  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0030685826     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00588-2     Document Type: Article

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