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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Elderly: Are Drug-coated Balloons the Future?

BACKGROUND: Balloon angioplasty revolutionised percutaneous treatment for coronary ar-tery disease four decades ago, but vessel-threatening dissections, elastic recoil and restenosis were major drawbacks to an otherwise successful long-lasting intervention. Subsequent advances with bare metal stents...

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Autores principales: Merinopoulos, Ioannis, Gunawardena, Tharusha, Wickramarachchi, Upul, Ryding, Alisdair, Eccleshall, Simon, Vassiliou, Vassilios S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Science Publishers 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29278215
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1573403X14666171226144120