1. Role of restenosis in determining adverse outcome after coronary angioplasty vs bypass surgery
- Author
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Arvinder S Kurbaan and Timothy J. Bowker
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Coronary Disease ,Restenosis ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Angioplasty ,Internal medicine ,Confidence Intervals ,Medicine ,Humans ,cardiovascular diseases ,Derivation ,Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary ,Coronary Artery Bypass ,business.industry ,Vascular disease ,Incidence ,Graft Occlusion, Vascular ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Survival Analysis ,Surgery ,Survival Rate ,Stenosis ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Bypass surgery ,England ,Cardiology ,Female ,business ,Complication ,therapeutics ,Artery - Abstract
A group of patients who did not have restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was compared with a group receiving coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Restenosis only partially accounted for the greater morbidity after PTCA compared with CABG.
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- 1999