More patients with drug-coated cardiac stents survive, avoid costly follow-up procedures
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 11:49
in Health & Medicine
The more than ten million Americans who`ve received drug-eluting stents to open their blocked coronary arteries have a bright future, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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