Clinical Benefit of IVUS Guidance for Coronary Stenting: The ULTIMATE Step Toward Definitive Evidence?

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¹ Structural Interventional Cardiology, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: carlo.dimario@unifi.it.
² Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Carlo di Mario et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018.

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. 2018 Dec 18;72(24):3138-3141.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.10.029.

¹ Structural Interventional Cardiology, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: carlo.dimario@unifi.it.
² Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Keywords: drug-eluting stents; intravascular ultrasound; restenosis; stent thrombosis.

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