The STICH trial: Misguided conclusions

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Buckberg, Gerald D ^a   Athanasuleas, Constantine L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE EJECTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 72049086203     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.07.015     Document Type: Editorial

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