Efficacy of coronary stenting in the management of cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
We undertook a study to determine the efficacy of stents in reducing restenosis in cardiac allograft vasculopathy. The result shows that coronary stenting significantly reduces restenosis in cardiac allograft vasculopathy compared with balloon angioplasty alone.
Wong
P M
PM
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Piamsomboon
C
C
Mathur
A
A
Chastain
H D
HD
Singh
D J
DJ
Liu
M W
MW
Parks
J M
JM
Iyer
S
S
Dean
L S
LS
Baxley
W A
WA
Bourge
R C
RC
Roubin
G S
GS
D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000379:methods*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D015607:Stents; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous