CLINICAL AND ANGIOGRAPHIC OUTCOME AFTER STENT PLACEMENT FOR CHRONIC CORONARY-OCCLUSION

Authors
ELEZI S KASTRATI A WEHINGER A WALTER H SCHUHLEN H HADAMITZKY M DIRSCHINGER J NEUMANN FJ SCHOMIG A
Citation
S. Elezi et al., CLINICAL AND ANGIOGRAPHIC OUTCOME AFTER STENT PLACEMENT FOR CHRONIC CORONARY-OCCLUSION, The American journal of cardiology, 82(6), 1998, pp. 803
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
82
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1998)82:6<803:CAAOAS>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
A consecutive series of 132 patients with total chronic coronary occlu sions were compared with 1,966 patients with stenotic lesions in terms of angiographic and clinical outcome. We concluded that patients with chronically occluded coronary lesions present a higher rate of target lesion revascularizations and angiographic restenosis than patients w ith stenotic lesions.