Cutting balloon versus conventional balloon angioplasty for the treatment of in-stent restenosis
Results of the restenosis cutting balloon evaluation trial (RESCUT)
Remo Albiero, MD*,*,
Sigmund Silber, MD
,
Carlo Di Mario, MD
,
Carmelo Cernigliaro, MD
,
Salvatore Battaglia, MD||,
Bernhard Reimers, MD¶,
Arian Frasheri, MD#,
Volker Klauss, MD**,
Joseph M. Auge, MD
,
Paolo Rubartelli, MD
,
Marie-Claude Morice, MD
,
Alberto Cremonesi, MD||||,
Joachim Schofer, MD¶¶,
Alessandro Bortone, MD##,
Antonio Colombo, MD* RESCUT Investigators
* Columbus Hospital, Milan, Italy
Müller Hospital, Munich, Germany
San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
|| Clinica Montevergine, Mercogliano (AV), Italy
¶ Ospedale Civile, Mirano, Italy
# Casa di Cura Villa Maria Eleonora, Palermo, Italy
** Klinikum Innenstadt Abteilung Cardiologie, Munich, Germany

Hospital Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

Ospedale San Martino, Genova, Italy

Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
|||| Casa di Cura Villa Maria Cecilia, Cotignola (RA), Italy
¶¶ Kardiologische Klinik Andreas-Grünzig-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
## Policlinico, Bari, Italy

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Figure 1 Measurements by quantitative coronary angiography (QCA). Cumulative distribution curves of minimum lumen diameter (MLD). CB = cutting balloon.
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