Coronary stents: current status

S Garg, PW Serruys - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010 - jacc.org
Coronary artery stents revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology after they were
first introduced in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been significant developments in …

Strength of study evidence examined by the FDA in premarket approval of cardiovascular devices

SS Dhruva, LA Bero, RF Redberg - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context Medical devices are common in clinical practice and have important effects on
morbidity and mortality, yet there has not been a systematic examination of evidence used …

Comparative effectiveness of revascularization strategies

WS Weintraub, MV Grau-Sepulveda… - … England Journal of …, 2012 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Questions persist concerning the comparative effectiveness of percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). The American …

A contemporary view of diagnostic cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States: a report from the CathPCI Registry of the …

GJ Dehmer, D Weaver, MT Roe… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to provide a report to the public of data from the CathPCI
Registry of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Background: The CathPCI Registry …

Randomized comparison of everolimus-and paclitaxel-eluting stents: 2-year follow-up from the SPIRIT (Clinical Evaluation of the XIENCE V Everolimus Eluting …

GW Stone, A Rizvi, K Sudhir, W Newman… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: We sought to determine whether the differences in outcomes present between
everolimus-eluting stents (EES) and paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) in the SPIRIT (Clinical …

Outcomes registry for better informed treatment of atrial fibrillation: rationale and design of ORBIT-AF

JP Piccini, ES Fraulo, JE Ansell, GC Fonarow… - American heart …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and
is associated with an increased risk of stroke, heart failure, and death. Data on contemporary …

Temporal trends in clinical characteristics, management and prognosis of patients with symptomatic heart failure in Japan–report from the CHART studies–

R Ushigome, Y Sakata, K Nochioka, S Miyata… - Circulation …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Background: Temporal trends in clinical characteristics, management and prognosis of
patients with symptomatic heart failure (HF) remain to be elucidated in Japan. Methods and …

Antiplatelet therapy duration following bare metal or drug-eluting coronary stents: the dual antiplatelet therapy randomized clinical trial

DJ Kereiakes, RW Yeh, JM Massaro… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Despite antirestenotic efficacy of coronary drug-eluting stents (DES) compared
with bare metal stents (BMS), the relative risk of stent thrombosis and adverse …

Safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents in older patients with chronic kidney disease: a report from the linked CathPCI Registry–CMS claims database

TT Tsai, JC Messenger, JM Brennan, UD Patel… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting
stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in older patients with chronic kidney …

Linking clinical registry data with administrative data using indirect identifiers: implementation and validation in the congenital heart surgery population

SK Pasquali, JP Jacobs, GJ Shook, SM O'Brien… - American heart …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The use of clinical registries and administrative data sets in pediatric
cardiovascular research has become increasingly common. However, this approach is …