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SUBMITTER: Deora S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4150045 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deora Surender S Shah Sanjay S Pancholy Samir S Patel Tejas T
Indian heart journal 20140610 4
The management of patients with significant in-stent restenosis (ISR) with drug-eluting stent is still not well defined. Various treatment modalities include plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA), metallic stent, cutting or scoring balloon and drug-eluting balloon (DEB). Bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) is the latest technology for the treatment of de novo coronary artery lesions. The use of BVS in ISR is based on the rationale of local drug delivery as achieved by DEB without the permanent ...[more]