title: Usefulness of cutting balloon angioplasty for pulmonary vein in-stent stenosis.
abstract: After radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation, patients may develop pulmonary vein stenoses requiring stent angioplasty. The treatment options for when such patients develop in-stent stenoses are poorly defined. The investigators retrospectively reviewed their initial experience with cutting balloon angioplasty for pulmonary vein in-stent stenosis. Ten patients with 21 previously stented pulmonary veins returned to the catheterization laboratory for in-stent stenoses. Angioplasty of individual in-stent stenotic vessels were grouped into standard angioplasty alone (n = 6) and a combination of cutting balloon followed by standard angioplasty (n = 15). Although final mean lesion diameter was increased significantly in the 2 groups, restenosis occurred in 4 of 6 vessels in the group with angioplasty alone and 2 of 15 vessels in the cutting balloon group. In conclusion, cutting balloon angioplasty for pulmonary vein in-stent stenosis appears to improve the intermediate results of repeat angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Amanda L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Lourdes R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Prieto
authors.forename: Jeffrey W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Delaney
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D011668:Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome