Drug-eluting stent trials: Too much non-inferiority, too little progress?

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9915, 2014, Pages 386-388

  Byrne, Robert A ^a,b   Kastrati, Adnan ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS; PACLITAXEL; RAPAMYCIN; UMIROLIMUS; ZOTAROLIMUS;

BARE METAL STENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84895072260     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62240-0     Document Type: Note

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