CORONARY STENTING
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: November 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781853176937
Subjects: Cardiothoracic surgery; Cardiovascular medicine; Coronary Heart Disease; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Cardiology; Surgery - General; Medical / Cardiology
First sentence: The use of percutaneously introduced prosthetic devices to maintain the luminal integrity of diseased blood vessels was initially proposed by Charles Dotter in 1964, who speculated that the temporary use of a silastic endovascular splint might maintain an adequate lumen after the creation of a pathway across a previously occluded vessel.