Transmyocardial revascularization with a carbon dioxide laser in patients with end-stage coronary artery disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 1021-1028

  Frazier, O H ^a   March, Robert J ^b   Horvath, Keith A ^c  

^a TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033619157     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199909303411402     Document Type: Article

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