Intracoronary radiation therapy improves the clinical and angiographic outcomes of diffuse in-stent restenotic lesions: Results of the Washington Radiation for In-Stent Restenosis Trial for long lesions (Long WRIST) studies

Circulation

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1744-1749

  Waksman, Ron ^a   Cheneau, Edouard ^a   Ajani, Andrew E ^a   White, R Larry ^a   Pinnow, Ellen ^a   Torguson, Rebecca ^a   Deible, Regina ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Teirstein, Paul S ^b   Lindsay, Joseph ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Lesion; Radiation; Restenosis

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY STENT; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037426377     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000060497.91775.6D     Document Type: Article

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