Intracoronary stent infection ... Beware the bugs

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-

  Chambers, Charles E ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTISEPSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY STENT; EDITORIAL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FOAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERSONAL HYGIENE; STENT THROMBOSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MASK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METALS; PERICARDITIS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60649086202     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21910     Document Type: Editorial

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