Open AccessManagement strategies in unstable coronary artery disease—Current problems and future directions
Author(s) -
Verheugt F. W. A.,
Becker R. C.,
Bertrand M. E.,
Bode C.,
Chesebro J. H.,
Cleland J. G. F.,
Conti R.,
Hillis W. S.,
Klein W.,
Maseri A.,
Turpie A. G. G.,
Wallentin L.,
Waters D. D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960220903
Subject(s) - medicine , coronary artery disease , current (fluid) , cardiology , intensive care medicine , engineering , electrical engineering
Unstable coronary artery disease continues to pose a major challenge to clinicians. The advent of new therapies, such as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, low‐molecular‐weight heparins, and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, provides new management options for this indication but also raises new questions with regard to optimal management. Prospective randomized trials with well‐defined, long‐term outcome measures and a means of identifying which patients will derive most benefit from each treatment, together with a means of rapid and clear dissemination of study results and implications, are required in order to advance the management of unstable coronary artery disease.