Clinical ResearchInterventional CardiologySirolimus-Eluting Versus Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent Implantation for the Percutaneous Treatment of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: A Combined RESEARCH and T-SEARCH Long-Term Analysis
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
BMS
bare-metal stent
BR
binary restenosis
CX
left circumflex coronary artery
DES
drug-eluting stent
IVUS
intravascular ultrasound
LAD
left anterior descending coronary artery
LL
late loss
LM
left main coronary artery
MACE
major adverse cardiac events
MI
myocardial infarction
MLD
minimal luminal diameter
PES
paclitaxel-eluting stent
RCA
right coronary artery
SES
sirolimus-eluting stent
TVR
target vessel revascularization
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This study was supported by the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, and by unrestricted institutional grants from Boston Scientific Corporation (Natick, Massachusetts) and Cordis, a Johnson & Johnson company (Warren, New Jersey).
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