RT Book, Section
A1 Don, Creighton W.
A1 Vadlamani, Lou
A1 Reisman, Mark
A2 Samady, Habib
A2 Fearon, William F.
A2 Yeung, Alan C.
A2 King III, Spencer B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1146790230
T1 Coronary Atherectomy: Concepts and Practice
T2 Interventional Cardiology, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071820363
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146790230
RD 2024/04/24
AB Coronary  atherectomy  continues  to  be  an  important  tool  for  percutaneous  coronary  intervention  (PCI),  particularly  as  the  population  ages  and  more  patients  present  with  complex  calcified  coronary  artery  disease.  Early  studies  using  rotational  and  laser  atherectomy  failed  to  demonstrate  a  clear  advantage  over  angioplasty  alone,  and  as  such,  atherectomy  of  straightforward  atherosclerotic  disease  is  not  commonly  used.1  With  the  very  low  restenosis  rates  of  second-generation  drug-eluting  stents  (DESs)  in  many  lesion  types,  contemporary  practice  is  to  use  atherectomy  primarily  as  adjunctive  therapy  for  plaque  modification  of  calcific  lesions  that  cannot  be  crossed  with  devices  or  dilated  with  balloons  to  enable  DES  delivery.