Sirolimus-eluting stent treatment for unprotected versus protected left main coronary artery disease in widespread clinical routine: 6-Month and 3-year clinical follow-up results from the prospective multicentre German Cypher Registry

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1251-1255

  Khattab, Ahmed A ^a,b   Hamm, Christian W ^c   Senges, Jochen ^d   Toelg, Ralph ^b   Geist, Volker ^b   Bonzel, Tassilo ^e   Kelm, Malte ^f   Levenson, Benny ^g   Neumann, Franz Josef ^h   Nienaber, Christoph A ⁱ   Pfannebecker, Thomas ^j   Sabin, Georg ^k   Schneider, Steffen ^d   Tebbe, Ulrich ^l   Richardt, Gert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Segeberger Kliniken GmbH   (Germany)

^c KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^d Herzzentrum   (Germany)

^e KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^g Kardiologische Praxis   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^j Medical Affairs Cordis Germany   (Germany)

^k ELISABETH KRANKENHAUS ESSEN   (Germany)

^l KLINIKUM LIPPE DETMOLD   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SIROLIMUS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBULIN MODULATORS;

EID: 34848900468     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.104703     Document Type: Article

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