A Comparison of Angioplasty with Medical Therapy in the Treatment of Single-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease

Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. Analysis and examples

1977 • 8,468 citations

Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

1958 • 7,673 citations

Clinical Trials: A Practical Approach.

1984 • 2,966 citations

Nonoperative Dilatation of Coronary-Artery Stenosis

1979 • 2,441 citations

Restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA): A report from the PTCA registry of the national heart, lung, and blood institute

1984 • 1,122 citations

Guidelines for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

1988 • 966 citations

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in 1985–1986 and 1977–1981

1988 • 859 citations

On distribution-free tests for equality of survival distributions

1977 • 709 citations

The Psychological General Well-Being (PGWB) index

1984 • 694 citations

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

1986 • 510 citations

Incidence and consequences of periprocedural occlusion. The 1985-1986 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Registry.

1990 • 432 citations

Coronary artery surgery study (CASS): a randomized trial of coronary artery bypass surgery. Quality of life in patients randomly assigned to treatment groups.

1983 • 427 citations

Long-Term Follow-up after Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty

1987 • 381 citations

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

1984 • 365 citations

Long-term efficacy of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA): Report from the national heart, lung, and blood institute PTCA registry

1984 • 190 citations

Restrictive diastolic abnormalities identified by Doppler echocardiography in patients with thalassemia major.

1990 • 182 citations

Recurrence rate after successful coronary angioplasty

1985 • 178 citations

Veterans administration cooperative study of surgery for coronary arterial occlusive disease

1977 • 128 citations

Exercise electrocardiography and myocardial scintigraphy in the serial evaluation of the results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.

1982 • 127 citations

Clinical outcome 5 years after attempted percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 427 patients.

1988 • 114 citations

Safety and efficacy of diltiazem hydrochloride for the treatment of stable angina pectoris: Report of a cooperative clinical trial

1982 • 113 citations

Survival and cardiac event rates in the first year after emergency coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction

1988 • 109 citations

Efficacy of repeat percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for coronary restenosis

1984 • 94 citations

Outcome in patients with recurrent restenosis after percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty.

1989 • 33 citations

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty versus Coronary Artery Bypass

1985 • 33 citations

Objective assessment of coronary angioplasty for multivessel disease: Results of exercise stress testing

1988 • 31 citations