PCI in octogenarians - Our centre 'real world' experience

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-473

  Behan, Miles ^a   Dixon, G ^a   Haworth, P ^a   Blows, L ^a   Hildick Smith, D ^a   Holmberg, S ^a   DeBelder, A ^a  

^a ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BARE METAL STENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649446307     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp055     Document Type: Letter

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