Revascularization of Left Anterior Descending Artery With Drug-Eluting Stents: Comparison With Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2067-2071

  Ben Gal, Yanai ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Braunstein, Rony ^b   Finkelstein, Ariel ^a   Hansson, Natalie ^a   Hendler, Alberto ^c   Moshkovitz, Yaron ^c   Uretzky, Gideon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c ASSUTA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REVASCULARIZATION; SEX RATIO;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; SIROLIMUS; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751188527     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.06.041     Document Type: Article

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