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Drug Coated Balloon and STEMI Patients: Maybe the Right Role has Not be Found Yet

[ ISSN : 2473-0688 ]

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Received: 31-Jul-2017

Accepted: 09-Aug-2017

Published: 14-Aug-2017

Case Report | Volume 3 - Issue 4 | Article DOI :

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Davide Piraino and Michele Carella*

Interventional Cardiology, “P. Giaccone” University Hospital of Palermo, Italy

Corresponding Author:

Davide Piraino, Interventional Cardiology Unit, University Hospital of Palermo, Via del Vespro n. 128, 90100, Palermo, Italy, Tel: +39-091-6554312; Email: pirainod@libero.it

Keywords

BMS: Bare Metal Stent; DCB: Drug Coated Balloon; DES: Drug Eluting Stent; ISR: In-Stent Restenosis; LLL: Late Lumen Loss; MACE: Major Adverse Cardiac Event; OCT: Optical Coherence Tomography Image

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Letter to Editor:

The introduction of drug coated balloon (DCB) and subsequently modifications of this device from the first to the second generation, improving the mechanism of drug delivery in the coronary segment and release on the vessel walls as well as its trackability have lead to obtain interesting results in the treatment of specific setting of patients

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Piraino D and Carella M. Drug Coated Balloon and STEMI Patients: Maybe the Right Role has Not be Found Yet. SM J Case Rep. 2017; 3(4): 1055