Interventional cardiology: the future beyond the coronaries
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Interventional cardiology: the future beyond the coronaries
It was not long ago that I was a medical student at McGill. I graduated in the class of 1996. When I started to do interventional work as a Cardiology Resident at McGill, we were well into the era of coronary intervention. Almost every balloon angioplasty was followed by the implantation of a stent, which had been shown to improve the immediate and long-term results of interventional therapy. L...
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عنوان ژورنال: McGill Journal of Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1715-8125
DOI: 10.26443/mjm.v10i2.447