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Cutting Balloon angioplasty for underexpanded stent deployed through struts of previously implanted stent
Octavia Balan1, Yoshio Kobayashi, Jeffrey W Moses
1Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute, 130 East, 77th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|October 31, 2002
Abstract:
We describe a case in which stenting through the struts of a previously deployed stent resulted in stent underexpansion despite 25 atm inflation pressure. Four months later, follow-up angiography demonstrated in-stent restenosis. It was successfully expanded with a Cutting Balloon.