Assessment of Coronary Bypass Surgery and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

A Randomized Trial of Immediate versus Delayed Elective Angioplasty after Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1987 • 964 citations

Twelve-Year Follow-up of Survival in the Randomized European Coronary Surgery Study

1988 • 713 citations

A Randomized Trial of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

1985 • 689 citations

Mammary artery-coronary artery anastomosis as method of treatment for angina pectoris

1967 • 648 citations

Saphenous Vein Autograft Replacement of Severe Segmental Coronary Artery Occlusion

1968 • 642 citations

Progress Study of 590 Consecutive Nonsurgical Cases of Coronary Disease Followed 5-9 Years

1973 • 550 citations

A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial of Intracoronary Streptokinase versus Coronary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction

1986 • 510 citations

The VA cooperative randomized study of surgery for coronary arterial occlusive disease II. Subgroup with significant left main lesions.

1976 • 509 citations

Treatment of Chronic Stable Angina

1977 • 492 citations

Effect of coronary bypass surgery on survival patterns in subsets of patients with left main coronary artery disease

1981 • 427 citations

Saphenous vein graft in the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease

1969 • 409 citations

Myocardial Infarction and Mortality in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Randomized Trial

1984 • 365 citations

A Randomized Trial of Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Acute Myocardial Infarction with Subsequent Randomization to Elective Coronary Angioplasty

1987 • 362 citations

Comparison of Medical and Surgical Treatment for Unstable Angina Pectoris

1987 • 216 citations

Extended Treatment of Severe Coronary Artery Disease

1969 • 205 citations

Aortocoronary bypass with saphenous vein graft. Seven-year follow-up. 1973

1996 • 186 citations

Comparison of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Medical Therapy in Patients 65 Years of Age or Older

1985 • 172 citations

Internal Mammary Artery-to-Coronary Artery Anastomosis

1972 • 163 citations

Aortocoronary Bypass With Saphenous Vein Graft

1973 • 162 citations

Results of Direct Coronary-Artery Surgery for the Treatment of Angina Pectoris

1973 • 142 citations

Surgical Measures for Coronary Heart Disease

1975 • 138 citations

Unstable angina pectoris: National cooperative study group to compare medical and surgical therapy

1981 • 137 citations

Medical versus Surgical Therapy for Acute Coronary Insufficiency

1975 • 136 citations

An aggressive surgical approach to coronary disease

1970 • 129 citations

Results of coronary bypass more than 5 years after operation in 434 patients

1977 • 128 citations

Value of coronary bypass surgery

1978 • 117 citations

The Nature of Treatment Selection in Coronary Artery Disease

1974 • 110 citations

Effect of aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass grafting on death and sudden death

1977 • 105 citations

Are Randomized Trials Appropriate for Evaluating New Operations?

1979 • 104 citations

Revascularization of the heart—numerators in search of denominators

1971 • 93 citations

Medical Perspectives in Coronary Artery Surgery—A Caveat

1974 • 67 citations

The physiologic parameters of ventricular function as affected by direct coronary surgery

1970 • 63 citations

The surgical mystique and the double standard

1973 • 62 citations

Improved long-term survival after aortocoronary bypass for advanced coronary artery disease

1975 • 61 citations

Randomization and Coronary Artery Surgery

1972 • 58 citations

Coronary Artery Medicine and Surgery. Concepts and Controversies.

1976 • 56 citations

Comparison of Medical and Surgical Treatment for Unstable Angina Pectoris

1988 • 55 citations

Improvement in exercise performance after unsuccessful myocardial revascularization

1977 • 51 citations

Blood Flow Through Aorta-to-Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts and Early Postoperative Patency

1971 • 51 citations

Randomized trials in coronary bypass surgery.

1985 • 43 citations

Coronary Artery Surgery. A Critical Review.

1978 • 41 citations

Surgical treatment of coronary arteriosclerosis by the saphenous vein graft technique

1971 • 37 citations

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty versus Coronary Artery Bypass

1985 • 33 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafting for the reduction of mortality: an analysis of the trials.

1984 • 31 citations

EXPERIMENTAL CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS OF BYPASS VENOUS GRAFTS, LONGITUDINAL ARTERIOTOMIES, AND END-TO-END ANASTOMOSES

1963 • 25 citations

Experimental coronary artery surgery. Long-term follow-up, bypass venous autografts, longitudinal arteriotomies, and end-to-end anastomoses.

1968 • 25 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafting for the reduction of mortality: an analysis of the trials

1985 • 22 citations

Aortocoronary-Artery Bypass

1978 • 21 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafting for the reduction of mortality: an analysis of the trials

1984 • 21 citations

Randomized surgical clinical trials for treatment of coronary artery disease

1982 • 14 citations

THE PSYCHE AND THE SOMA: THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE HEART

1951 • 13 citations

Surgery for coronary artery disease placed in perspective.

1972 • 13 citations

Assessment of the use of the age- and sex-specific United States population as a control group for analysis of survival in coronary artery disease

1982 • 12 citations

Myocardial revascularization: Current state of the art

1975 • 8 citations

Coronary Artery Surgery: A Critical Review

1977 • 3 citations

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty—II

1980 • 1 citations

Prognosis in severe angina pectoris due to triple coronary artery disease treated medically

1976 • 1 citations