Stent for Life: How this initiative began?

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages P8-P10

  Widimsky, Petr ^a   Wijns, William ^b   Kaifoszova, Zuzana ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^c Stent for Life Project Manager Europe   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC STABLE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENTING; EUROPE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; ORGANIZATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; COOPERATION; EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART INFARCTION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904789105     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8SPA3     Document Type: Article

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