Meta-analysis of minimally invasive internal thoracic artery bypass versus percutaneous revascularisation for isolated lesions of the left anterior descending artery

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7594, 2007, Pages 617-621

  Aziz, Omer ^a   Rao, Christopher ^a   Panesar, Sukhmeet Singh ^a   Jones, Catherine ^a   Morris, Stephen ^b   Darzi, Ara ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; EMBASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAMMARY ARTERY; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ARTERY STENTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STENT;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947713703     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39106.476215.BE     Document Type: Article

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