Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world.
Central to the pathogenesis of CAD is the development of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary …

In summary, the committee concludes that elective stenting in selected patient subsets
enhances the result of percutaneous coronary interventional procedures. In these subsets …

The first percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was performed in September 1977 by
Andreas Grüntzig using a rudimentary balloon angioplasty catheter mounted on a fixed wire …

Coronary artery stents: a rapid systematic review and economic evaluation - NIHR Health
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Surgeons refer to this classic text again and again, partly because of the clarity of its
innovative format, so useful and popular that it has been copied by others. This technical …

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a cardiovascular disease of the blood vessels that makes
vessels, narrow and hardened and difficult to supply blood to the heart. The epidemiology of …

The subspecialty of interventional cardiology has made significant progress in the
management of coronary artery disease over the past three decades with the development …

Coronary artery stents revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology after they were
first introduced in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been significant developments in …

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At present, 90 to 95 percent of percutaneous coronary interventions involve the implantation
of a stent, often a drug-eluting stent, though most published data originated in the era of bare …