Palliative treatment of coronary “atherosclerotic cancer” by drug-eluting or bare-metal stents: From oculo-stenotic reflex period to age of precision medicine
Medications and treatments are said to have a palliative effect if they relieve symptoms without having a curative effect on the underlying disease such as atherosclerosis or cancer. Some authors speculated that atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) could be considered a “cancer of the coron...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Indian Heart Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483217304029 |