Drug-eluting stents reduce restenosis rates and major adverse cardiac events, but not mortality, in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

Evidence-Based Healthcare and Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-19

  Kong, David F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bare metal stents; Drug eluting stents; Meta analysis; Mortality; Paclitaxel; Restenosis; Sirolimus; Treatment outcomes

Indexed keywords

METAL; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 13944281861     PISSN: 17442249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehbc.2004.11.030     Document Type: Note

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