Endoluminal beta-radiation therapy for the prevention of coronary restenosis after balloon angioplasty

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 243-249

  Verin, Vitali ^a   Popowski, Youri ^a   De Bruyne, Bernard ^b   Baumgart, Dietrich ^c   Sauerwein, Wolfgang ^c   Lins, Markus ^d   Kovacs, György ^d   Thomas, Martyn ^e   Calman, Francis ^e   Disco, Clemens ^f   Serruys, Patrick W ^f   Wijns, William ^b,g   Piessens, Marleen ^b   Kurtz, John ^a   Simon, Ruediger ^d   Delafontaine, Patrice ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BETA RADIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTENOSIS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BETA RAYS; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; STENTS; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0035945670     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200101253440401     Document Type: Article

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