Surgery, angioplasty, or medical therapy for symptomatic multivessel coronary artery disease: Is there an indisputable "winning strategy" from evidence-based clinical trials?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1752-1754

  Boden, William E ^a,b  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 2442604617     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.02.025     Document Type: Editorial

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