Drug-coated balloons for coronary artery disease third report of the international DCB consensus group

• Main Authors: Jeger, Raban V., Eccleshall, Simon, Wan Ahmad, Wan Azman, Ge, Junbo, Poerner, Tudor C., Shin, Eun-Seok, Alfonso, Fernando, Latib, Azeem, Ong, Paul J., Rissanen, Tuomas T., Saucedo, Jorge, Scheller, Bruno, Kleber, Franz X.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier Science Inc 2020
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/36606/

Although drug-eluting stents are still the default interventional treatment of coronary artery disease, drug-coated balloons (DCBs) represent a novel alternative therapeutic strategy in certain anatomic conditions. The effect of DCBs is based on the fast and homogenous transfer of antiproliferative...