Delayed neointimal healing after drug-eluting stent implantation: Seeing is believing

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2147-2149

  Desmet, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; RAPAMYCIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTIMA; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; RETREATMENT; THROMBOSIS; THROMBUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

CORONARY THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; RECURRENCE; SIROLIMUS; STENTS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 33748803334     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl170     Document Type: Editorial

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