Reduction in complications of angioplasty with abciximab occurs largely independently of baseline lesion morphology
Stephen G. Ellis, MD*,
A. Michael Lincoff, MD*,
Dave Miller, MS
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James E. Tcheng, MD
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Neal S. Kleiman, MD
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Dean Kereiakes, MD||,
Robert Califf, MD
,
Eric J. Topol, MD* for the EPIC and EPILOG Investigators
* Department of Cardiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Department of Biostatistics, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Department of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
|| The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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Figure 1 Treatment effect of abciximab on 30-day adverse outcome for various lesion morphologies. LL = lesion length; Deg SVG = degenerated saphenous vein graft.
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