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Editorial
Darwin and the survival of the fittest in modern interventional cardiology
  1. V K Bhatia,
  2. C Di Mario
  1. Department of Interventional Cardiology, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Professor Carlo Di Mario
    Department of Interventional Cardiology, The Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; c.dimario{at}rbh.nthames.nhs.uk

Abstract

The diabetic patient requires a full armamentarium of proven and developing treatments in order to minimise periprocedural risk as well as improve long term outcome

  • DES, drug eluting stents
  • Gp, glycoprotein
  • MACE, major adverse cardiac events
  • MI, myocardial infarction
  • PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention
  • TLR, target lesion revascularisation
  • diabetes mellitus
  • glycoprotein IIb/IIIa
  • percutaneous coronary intervention
  • drug-eluting stent

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2005.083923

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    Footnotes

    • Published Online First 31 January 2006

    • Conflict of interest: none.