Long-term outcome and determinants of event-free survival in patients treated with balloon angioplasty for in-stent restenosis.
Long-term prognosis and predictors of event-free survival were studied in 56 consecutive patients with in-stent restenosis successfully treated with balloon angioplasty. Most patients sustained prolonged clinical benefit, but during follow-up, those with diabetes or with a short time interval (<4 months) from stenting to repeat angioplasty experienced adverse cardiac events more often.
Alfonso
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Interventional Cardiology Unit, San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
Pérez-Vizcayno
M J
MJ
Hernández
R
R
Goicolea
J
J
Fernández-Ortíz
A
A
Escaned
J
J
Bañuelos
C
C
Fernández
C
C
Macaya
C
C
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012008:Recurrence; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*