1st Edition

Common Clinical Dilemmas in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

352 Pages
by CRC Press

352 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

352 Pages
by CRC Press

Coronary stenting is the most commonly used method of myocardial revascularization, with approximately 2 million stents implanted in 2004 throughout the world. The development of drug eluting stents has resulted in very low rates of repeat intervention and will further increase the scope for percutaneous coronary intervention. The evidence from large randomized trials is generally accepted to be... Read more
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Biography

Eulógio E Martinez, Pedro A Lemos, Andrew TL Ong, Patrick W Serruys