title: Two-year Optical Coherence Tomography Findings after Balloon-Only Treatment of Bioresorbable Scaffold Restenosis in a Calcified Coronary Lesion: A Case Report.
abstract: We report a case of a 65-year-old female patient treated with an everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) after rotational atherectomy of a severely calcified lesion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The implanted BRS restenosed 10 months after implantation and was treated with a scoring balloon followed by drug-eluting balloons with good immediate and long-term results. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a balloon-only treatment of a restenosis occurring more than 6 months after BRS implantation; angiographic and optical coherence tomography images after treatment and at two-year follow-up are presented.
authors.affiliation: Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken GmbH, Academic Teaching Hospital for the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg, Bad Segeberg, Germany. abdelhakim.allali@segebergerkliniken.de.
authors.forename: Abdelhakim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allali
authors.affiliation: Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken GmbH, Academic Teaching Hospital for the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg, Bad Segeberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdel-Wahab
authors.affiliation: Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken GmbH, Academic Teaching Hospital for the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg, Bad Segeberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Richardt
keywords: Bioresorbable vascular scaffold; Calcified coronary lesions; Drug eluting balloon; Rotational atherectomy; Scoring balloon