Does a stent cure hypertension?

Heart

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 828-829

  Oechslin, Erwin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AORTA ARCH; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA OCCLUSION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; BALLOON DILATATION; DESCENDING AORTA; EDITORIAL; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AORTIC COARCTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; STENTS;

EID: 46249093717     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.130013     Document Type: Editorial

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