Cutting balloon angioplasty for intrastent restenosis treatment

We describe here two patients with angiographic diagnosis of intrastent restenosis and regional myocardial ischemia. One stent restenosis was located in a native coronary artery and the other in a vein graft. Both were treated with cutting balloon angioplasty (CBA), inflated at low pressures. Angiographic success was obtained and both patients were discharged in the day after the procedure. Cutting balloon angioplasty using low inflation pressures achieved important luminal gains, in these two cases of intrastent restenosis. Further studies are necessary before the effectiveness of this procedure can be precisely defined.

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Main Authors: Freitas Jr,João Orávio de, Berti,Sérgio Luis, Bonfá,José Geraldo, Speranza,Maria Sílvia Martins, Gandolphi,Pércio Primo, Bongiovani,Hércules Lisboa
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC 1999
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X1999000500009
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