Off-pump surgery may have some long-term benefits over percutaneous coronary angioplasty with stenting in proximal left anterior descending coronary artery disease

Evidence-based Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 78-80

  Drenth, D ^c   Veeger, N ^c   Winter, J ^c   Boonstra, P ^a   Martín, José Valencia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; TICLOPIDINE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; DEATH; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG USE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART REINFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; NETHERLANDS; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142672039     PISSN: 13612611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-2611(03)00018-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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