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Mo</a> <a title="Interventional Cardiology 4.1 2016 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/50582366?page=65"> 4. George CJ et al. One-year follow-up of the Ste</a> <a title="Interventional Cardiology 4.1 2016 page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/50582366?page=66"> report from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiog</a> <a title="Interventional Cardiology 4.1 2016 page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/50582366?page=67"> bioabsorbable polymer-coated sirolimus- eluting s</a> <a title="Interventional Cardiology 4.1 2016 page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/50582366?page=68"> TWO-STENT STRATEGY? 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