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Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism and restenosis after coronary angioplasty.
Heart (British Cardiac Society) - 1 Sept 2001
Francis S E, Camp N J, Burton A J, Dewberry R M, Gunn J, Stephens-Lloyd A, Cumberland D C, Gershlick A, Crossman D C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is limited by the recurrence of luminal stenosis, which occurs in up to 50% of procedures. It has been shown that patient specific factors, perhaps genes, contribute to this process. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether completion of healing after PTCA is part of an acute self limiting inflammatory process and whether polymorphism at important...
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