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Article: Bypass Surgery vs. Stenting for Multivessel Disease in Stable and Unstable Angina.(Clinical report)
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- Clinical Cardiology Alert
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Bypass Surgery vs. Stenting for Multivessel Disease in Stable and Unstable Angina
This is a relatively small randomized trial comparing coronary stenting to bypass surgery in individuals with stable and unstable angina with multivessel coronary disease. A substudy of the Arterial Revascularization Therapy Study (ARTS) trial asked whether type of angina and choice of revascularization strategy had an effect on clinical outcomes. The background comes from earlier reports suggesting that revascularization results in unstable angina are less favorable than in those who have stable angina. In this study, 1205 patients, recruited between 1997 and 1998, were classified ...