Degradable polymer drug-eluting stents: A durable benefit?

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9867, 2013, Pages 607-609

  Mehilli, Julinda ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BIOMATRIX FLEX; CYPHER; EVEROLIMUS; POLYMER; PROMUS; RAPAMYCIN; UMIROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BIODEGRADABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG SAFETY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; MATERIAL COATING; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84874448283     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62193-X     Document Type: Note

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