Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
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Catheter Cardiovasc Interv · Jul 2016
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyA novel drug-coated scoring balloon for the treatment of coronary in-stent restenosis: Results from the multi-center randomized controlled PATENT-C first in human trial.
Scoring balloons produce excellent acute results in the treatment of in-stent restenosis (ISR), fibro-calcific and bifurcation lesions but have not been shown to affect the restenosis rate. A novel paclitaxel-coated scoring balloon (SB) was developed and tested to overcome this limitation. ⋯ A novel paclitaxel-coated coronary SB has been developed and successfully used in a first-in-human randomized controlled trial [ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01495533]. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.