I read with great interest the case report by Liu et al. [1] pertaining to coronary artery stent infection. In 2000, the article "Coronary Artery Stent Infection" was published, which reviewed the world literature and proposed diagnostic criteria for identifying coronary artery stent infections [2]
Coronary stent infections: A case series
β Scribed by Aaron B. Schoenkerman; Robert J. Lundstrom
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 81 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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