Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

Scripps Clinic interventional cardiologist Paul Teirstein, M.D., became the first in Southern California to use a newly approved drug-coated balloon to clear a clogged stent that previously had ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2008;6(2):261-274. One stent technique/ stent with balloon technique Easiest and simplest initial techniques by advancing only one stent in the main branch Risk of side ...