The NUGGET Study: NIR Ultra Gold-Gilded Equivalency Trial

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 18-25

  Reifart, Nicolaus ^a   Morice, Marie Claude ^b   Silber, Sigmund ^c   Benit, Edouard ^d   Hauptmann, K E ^e   De Sousa, Eduardo ^f   Webb, John ^g   Kaul, Upendra ^h   Chan, Charles ⁱ   Thuesen, Leif ^j   Guagliumi, Giulio ^k   Cobaugh, Michael ^l   Dawkins, Keith ^m  

^a Main Taunus Heart Institute   (Germany)

^b Clinique du Bois Verrières   (France)

^c Klinik Dr Mueller   (Germany)

^d Virga Jesse Hasselt   (Belgium)

^e KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTO DANTE PAZZANESE DE CARDIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^g ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h Batra Hospital India   (India)

ⁱ SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^j AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^k OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^l Boston Scientific GmbH   (Germany)

^m SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Angiography; Gold; Restenosis; Stent

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; GOLD; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTENOSIS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 2342518238     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20026     Document Type: Article

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