Use of drug-coated balloon instead of drug-eluting stent for pediatric cardiac allograft vasculopathy

• Main Authors: Masaki Hirose (Author), Jun Narita (Author), Kazuhisa Hashimoto (Author), Ryo Ishii (Author), Hidekazu Ishida (Author), Keiichi Ozono (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) sometimes leads to restenosis, even after percutaneous transcatheter intervention. Recently, drug-coated balloons (DCBs) have been successfully used to treat coronary artery disease, especially CAVs, in adults. However, no studies have used DCBs in pediatric CAVs...