The foundation and launch of the Melbourne Interventional Group: a collaborative interventional cardiology project.

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Published in Heart Lung Circ on October 27, 2005

Authors

A E Ajani1, G Szto, S J Duffy, D Eccleston, D J Clark, J Lefkovits, D P Chew, R Warren, A Black, G New, A Walton, R Lew, J Shaw, M Horrigan, M Sebastian, B P Yan, A Brennan, A Meehan, C Reid, H Krum, Melbourne Interventional Group investigators

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. andrew.ajani@mh.org.au

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