Effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention in cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
Twenty-five heart transplant recipients underwent 45 coronary interventions at a mean of 7.8 +/- 2.2 years from time of transplant. Periprocedural success was high, and there was a trend toward better outcomes in the group that underwent stent deployment compared with conventional balloon angioplasty.
Doshi
Amit A
AA
Saint Louis University Hospital, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
Rogers
Joseph
J
Kern
Morton J
MJ
Hauptman
Paul J
PJ
D000328:Adult; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000379:methods; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D008923:Missouri; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents