Summary: The use of balloon angioplasty with or without coronary artery stenting is limited by the phenomenon of in-stent restenosis (ISR). Until very recently, most efforts to overcome ISR had ...

The coronary stent was a major breakthrough in the management of CAD. Indeed, ISR was a major limiting factor with BMS in the initial few years until DES was introduced. Since then, various RCTs ...

Nitinol is a nearly equiatomic metal alloy of nickel and titanium with unique properties, including superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity) and shape memory ...