First Percutaneous Catheter Intervention for Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: 30 Years Ago
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First percutaneous catheter intervention for left main coronary artery disease: 30 years ago.
t this time when we celebrate the birth of JACC: Cardiovascular nterventions, it is worth remembering that the first angioplasty for eft main coronary artery disease (CAD) was performed 30 years go by Andreas Gruentzig. Gruentzig described the first 5 cases of percutaneous catheter ntervention (PCI) in awake humans in a Letter to the Editor (1) Fig. 1). Although the legend to the figure stated ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1936-8798
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2007.08.001