Stent for Life: how this initiative began?
The Stent for Life Initiative was founded in September 2008 as a coalition of the European Society of Cardiology, European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions and Eucomed. The aim is to promote the life-saving indications for percutaneous coronary interventions--especially in all forms of acute myocardial infarction. This article describes how this initiative began.
Cardiocenter, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
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