Drug-Eluting Stenting. The Case for Post-Dilation

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-31

  Romagnoli, Enrico ^a   Sangiorgi, Giuseppe M ^a   Cosgrave, John ^a   Guillet, Edouard ^b   Colombo, Antonio ^a  

^a EMO GVM CENTRO CUORE COLUMBUS   (Italy)

^b Medtronic Corporation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; RAPAMYCIN; TRANILAST;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BALLOON DILATATION; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 41249087545     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2007.10.005     Document Type: Review

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