## Abstract The restenosis rate after stenting of lesions in aortocoronary venous bypass grafts still has to be considered unsatisfactorily high. We investigated a new stent design characterized by an expandable polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) membrane in between two layers of struts. Five consecutiv
Membrane-covered stents for the treatment of aortocoronary vein graft disease
✍ Scribed by Stephan Baldus; Ralf Köster; Jacobus Reimers; Christian W. Hamm
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 313 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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