The Emory Angioplasty versus Surgery Trial (EAST) showed that multivessel patients
eligible for both percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary …

Approximately 80% of all patients with diabetes die of cardiovascular disease. The
traditional management of type 2 diabetes has been ineffective in altering this dismal …

Objectives: We compared six-month health-related quality of life (HRQL) for high-risk
patients with medically refractory ischemia randomized to percutaneous coronary …

A considerable amount of research has been carried out in order to improve the quality and
feasibility of stents in recent years. However, published works on simulation of stent …

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is the complete blockage of a vessel and usually has serious
consequences if not treated in a timely fashion. The blockage could be due to atheromatous …

Background The introduction and refinement of coronary-artery stenting dramatically
changed the practice of percutaneous coronary revascularization in the mid-1990s. We …

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions (CTOs) has a lower
success rate than PCI for non-CTO lesions. We sought to determine trends in the treatment …

Introduction This study is a citation analysis of the top 100 most cited papers in adult cardiac
surgery. Bibliometric analyses are viewed as a proxy marker of a paper's influence and …

Whether coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention
(PCI) is the preferred revascularisation method in patients with multivessel coronary artery …

BACKGROUND: Increasingly, patients are being referred for coronary artery bypass grafting
(CABG) for management of symptoms after prior percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) …