Comparison of Outcomes Between Bare Metal Stents and Drug-Eluting Stents for Percutaneous Revascularization of Internal Mammary Grafts

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 722-724

  Buch, Ashesh N ^a   Xue, Zhenyi ^a   Gevorkian, Natalie ^a   Torguson, Rebecca ^a   Fournadjieva, Jana ^a   Deible, Regina ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PACLITAXEL; SIROLIMUS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748086035     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.03.058     Document Type: Article

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