ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 guideline update for percutaneous coronary intervention: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force …

SC Smith Jr, TE Feldman, JW Hirshfeld Jr… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - Elsevier
The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines was formed to gather information and
make recommendations about appropriate use of technology for the diagnosis and …

Coronary artery stents

J Al Suwaidi, PB Berger, DR Holmes Jr - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
ContextIntracoronary stents are now used for the majority of patients undergoing
percutaneous coronary revascularization, and the body of scientific knowledge about stents …

Catastrophic outcomes of noncardiac surgery soon after coronary stenting

GL Kałuza, J Joseph, JR Lee, ME Raizner… - Journal of the American …, 2000 - jacc.org
OBJECTIVES To assess the clinical course of patients who have undergone coronary stent
placement less than six weeks before noncardiac surgery. BACKGROUND Surgical and …

Argentine randomized study: coronary angioplasty with stenting versus coronary bypass surgery in patients with multiple-vessel disease (ERACI II): 30-day and one …

A Rodriguez, V Bernardi, J Navia, J Baldi… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - jacc.org
OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare percutaneous transluminal
coronary revascularization (PTCR) employing stent implantation to conventional coronary …

Evidence for use of coronary stents: a hierarchical bayesian meta-analysis

JM Brophy, P Belisle, L Joseph - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Background: Coronary stents are widely used in interventional cardiology, but a current
quantitative systematic overview comparing routine coronary stenting with standard …

Ultrasound-guided strategy for provisional stenting with focal balloon combination catheter: results from the randomized Strategy for Intracoronary Ultrasound-guided …

AW Frey, JM Hodgson, C Müller, HP Bestehorn… - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Intracoronary ultrasound (ICUS) has provided insights into vascular pathology
and interventional therapy. The Strategy for ICUS-Guided PTCA and Stenting (SIPS) trial …

Clinical and angiographic outcome after coronary arterial stenting with the carbostent

D Antoniucci, A Bartorelli, R Valenti, P Montorsi… - The American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
The Carbostent is a new balloon-expandable, stainless steel, tubular stent with innovative
multicellular design and unique turbostratic carbon coating (Carbofilm). This open …

Optimum percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty compared with routine stent strategy trial (OPUS-1): a randomised trial

WD Weaver, MA Reisman, JJ Griffin, CE Butler… - The Lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
Background Whether routine implantation of coronary stents is the best strategy to treat flow-
limiting coronary stenoses is unclear. An alternative approach is to do balloon angioplasty …

Impact of coronary artery stents on mortality and nonfatal myocardial infarction: meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing a strategy of routine stenting with that of …

J Al Suwaidi, DR Holmes Jr, AM Salam, R Lennon… - American heart …, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: A strategy of routine stenting has been shown to reduce the need for target-
vessel revascularization compared with a strategy of balloon angioplasty alone; however …

Oral rapamycin after coronary bare-metal stent implantation to prevent restenosis: the Prospective, Randomized Oral Rapamycin in Argentina (ORAR II) Study

AE Rodriguez, JF Granada… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the role of oral rapamycin in decreased
restenosis after bare metal stent implantation. Background: Small observational studies …