The World Post STICH: Is This a "Game Changer?" A Surgeon's Perspective - Revascularization Is Still the Treatment of Choice

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 470-475

  Daggubati, Ramesh ^a   Arumugham, Pradeep ^a   Ferguson, T Bruce ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CABG; Chronic stable angina; Functional SYNTAX score; Ischemia; STITCH

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DOCUMENTATION; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVASCULARIZATION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84875247493     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: 18731740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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