Editorial: Stents or surgery? New data on the comparative outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 325-327

  Hlatky, Mark A ^a   Bravata, Dena M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Coronary artery disease; Editorials; Revascularization; Stents; Surgery; Trials

Indexed keywords

BARE METAL STENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49149091789     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.788489     Document Type: Editorial

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