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Impact of Routine Angiographic Follow-Up on the Clinical Benefits of Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents

Results From the TAXUS-IV Trial

Duane S. Pinto, MD, FACC^_*,_*, Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, Stephen G. Ellis, MD, FACC, David A. Cox, MD, FACC, James Hermiller, MD, FACC^||, Charles O’Shaughnessy, MD, FACC^¶, J. Tift Mann, MD, FACC^#, Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, Yingbo Na, MSc, Mark Turco, MD, FACC^_**, Ronald Caputo, MD, FACC, Jeffrey J. Popma, MD, FACC, Donald E. Cutlip, MD, FACC^_*, Mary E. Russell, MD, FACC, David J. Cohen, MD, MSc^_* for the TAXUS-IV Investigators

^_* Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Columbia University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Mid Carolina Cardiology, Charlotte, North Carolina
^|| St. Vincent’s Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
^¶ Elyria Memorial Hospital, Elyria, Ohio
^# WakeMed, Raleigh, North Carolina
^_** Washington Adventist Hospital, Tacoma Park, Maryland
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Syracuse, New York
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Scientific Corporation, Natick, Massachusetts

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Curves showing freedom from target vessel revascularization at 1 year among patients assigned to clinical follow-up alone (A) or to mandatory 9-month angiographic follow-up (B). Events are summarized as unadjusted Kaplan-Meier estimates and comparisons between the groups were made with a log-rank test.