Drug-Coated Balloon-Only Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Treatment of De Novo Coronary Artery Disease: A Systematic Review

Abstract Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with a drug coated balloon (DCB) is a novel treatment which seeks to acutely dilate a coronary stenosis and deliver an anti-proliferative drug to the vessel wall (reducing the risk of re-stenosis), without implanting a drug eluting stent (DES). In th...

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Main Authors: Hasan Mohiaddin, Tamar D. F. K. Wong, Anne Burke-Gaffney, Richard G. Bogle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Adis, Springer Healthcare 2018-10-01
Series:Cardiology and Therapy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40119-018-0121-2