Coronary Stenting
Subtitle: current perspectives
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781841840024
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Surgery - General; Medical / Nursing; Cardiology; Laboratory Medicine; Medical / Laboratory Medicine
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.