Do Fish Oils Prevent Restenosis Post-Coronary Angioplasty?

Launched by NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (NHLBI) · Oct 27, 1999

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BACKGROUND:

Coronary angioplasty is a non-surgical means of mechanical coronary artery revascularization with the potential of reducing or eliminating severe coronary arterial narrowing which results in myocardial ischemia. Since its innovation, the technique of coronary angioplasty has undergone continuous refinement, so that a greater proportion of patients are now eligible for this increasingly successful procedure. All clinical syndromes associated with coronary artery disease, including chronic stable angina, silent myocardial ischemia, unstable angina, and acute myocardial infarction...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women with coronary heart disease in the native coronary arteries. Patients were symptomatic or had 50 percent or greater stenosis as defined by coronary angiography.
• • Patients had not undergone prior angioplasty.

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