Multi-vessel coronary disease and percutaneous coronary intervention
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Multi-vessel coronary disease and percutaneous coronary intervention.
Correspondence to: David P Faxon MD, Section of Cardiology, 5841 South Maryland Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; ccasey@ medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu _________________________ T he goal of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is to provide a safe, effective, less invasive alternative to coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). When introduced by Andreas Gruentzig 25 years ago, he envisioned...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1355-6037,1468-201X
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.018986