The bottleneck stent in pigs provides a feasible novel large animal model for reversible myocardial ischemia and ischemic heart failure to test new therapeutic approaches.
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New pig bottleneck-stent model enables reversible ischemia and HF studies; leaves open translation to human therapeutics and should not yet change practice.
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