Approaches to overcome these limitations include selecting larger guide catheters with more support, deep intubation of the guide catheter, inflation of an angioplasty balloon in a proximal side ...

Stents are of many types. There can be self expendable stents or there are balloon mounted stents, the use of which depends ...

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 ...