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- Title
Intracoronary brachytherapy for in-stent restenosis: will it remain a viable therapy?
- Authors
Seong-Wook Park; Myeong-Ki Hong; Seung Jun Oh; Dae Hyuk Moon
- Abstract
Stent placement has replaced balloon angioplasty as the most commonly performed percutaneous coronary intervention procedure because of its acute and long-term advantages over balloon angioplasty. However, widespreaduse of stents has also led to a new problem, the in-stentrestenosis (ISR). ISR remains a major limitation of stent technology and represents a technical challenge since therecurrence rate after percutaneous intervention is still high, particularly for the diffuse type of ISR. Studies using intravascular ultrasound have demonstrated that the main mechanism of ISR is neointimal proliferation.
- Subjects
SURGICAL stents; DIAGNOSTIC use of transluminal angioplasty; ARTERIAL dilatation; SURGICAL instruments; ARTERIAL catheterization; MEDICAL imaging systems
- Publication
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, 2004, Vol 31, Issue 9, p1219
- ISSN
1619-7070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00259-004-1567-0