Influence of age on the clinical outcomes of coronary revascularisation for the treatment of patients with multivessel de novo coronary artery lesions: sirolimus-eluting stent vs. coronary artery bypass surgery and bare metal stent, insight from the multicentre randomised Arterial Revascularisation Therapy Study Part I (ARTS-I) and Part II (ARTS-II)

Victor M. Legrand1, MD; Scot Garg2, MD; Patrick W. Serruys2*, MD; Kari S. Virtanen3, MD; Günter Szurawitzki4, MD; Vassilis Voudris5, MD; Alessandro Fontanelli6, MD; Knut Endersen7, MD; Igor Kranjec8, MD; Tessa Rademaker9, MSc; Christodoulos I. Stefanidis10, MD; Kristel Wittebols11, MSc

1. CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium; 2. Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 3. Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 4. Elisabeth Krankenhaus, Essen, Germany; 5. Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greec

Aims: We sought to evaluate the prognostic impact of age on the procedural results and subsequent clinical outcomes in patients with multivessel disease (MVD) treated either by coronary art

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