"We're counting on the competition, " says Samin Sharma, an interventional cardiologist at Mount-Sinai Hospital in New York.

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"This time of year is notorious for heart attacks, heart failures, and arrhythmias, " says Samin Sharma, MD, director of interventional cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

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But Samin Sharma, an interventional cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital who performs more than 1, 000 angioplasties a year, says the worries were affecting his practice even before the European cardiology meeting.

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Samin Sharma, a cardiologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, say she thinks most doctors would opt to use Cypher if it weren't for persistent manufacturing problems that can make the device harder for doctors to get.

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Samin Sharma, a cardiologist at Mt.

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