title: Cutting Balloon angioplasty for cardiac transplant vasculopathy.
abstract: We performed Cutting Balloon angioplasty on 20 lesions in 11 heart transplant recipients 7.5 +/- 3.8 years after transplantation. The mean percentage of diameter stenosis decreased from 88.3% +/- 13.8% to 19.6% +/- 13.7% after Cutting Balloon angioplasty without complication. Seven patients underwent follow-up angiography at 4.9 +/- 1.7 months in a total of 12 lesions, and all lesions showed restenosis with a mean diameter stenosis of 84.4% +/- 19.2%. Cutting Balloon angioplasty can be used to treat obstructions in cardiac transplant coronary arteries; however, it may cause exacerbation and produce a high restenosis rate.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles Center of Health Sciences, USA.
authors.forename: Yuzuru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Jesse W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Currier
authors.forename: Lawrence A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Yeatman
authors.forename: Jon A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kobashigawa
authors.forename: Alfred D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Lisa J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Cianfichi
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Fishbein
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tobis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged