Does angiography six months after coronary intervention influence management and outcome?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1507-1511

  Ruygrok, Peter N ^a,b   Melkert, Rein ^a   Morel, Marie Angèle M ^a   Ormiston, John A ^a   Bär, Frits W ^a   Fernandez Avilés, Francisco ^a   Suryapranata, Harry ^a   Dawkins, Keith D ^a   Hanet, Claude ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a CARDIALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^b GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033230512     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(99)00380-0     Document Type: Article

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