title: Effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention in cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Saint Louis University Hospital, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Amit A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Doshi
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Morton J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kern
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hauptman
mesh_terms: 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