Some implications for clinical cardiology of recent advances in interventional cardiology.
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Some implications for clinical cardiology of recent advances in interventional cardiology.
RECENT YEARS have seen the development of many new techniques and therapies that are useful or potentially useful in the management of patients with cardiovascular diseases. A number of these procedures performed by cardiologists have given rise to the term "interventional cardiology," referring to the more active, interventional role of the physician performing the procedure as compared with t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.73.6.1094