ACC 09 Highlights: Mostly Good News for Device Manufacturers
Executive Summary
A number of interesting studies came out of this year's American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting, providing some good (and a few not so good) results for several device-based cardiovascular therapies, including drug-eluting stents and heart failure and cardiac assist devices.
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