Intravascular Radiation Delays Recurrence of Recalcitrant Coronary In-Stent Restenosis
Kent Wallner, Kathleen E. Kearney, Joseph M. DeCunha, Edward Y. Kim, Lorenzo Azzalini, Michael R. Folkert, George Sandison, William L. Lombardi, Sant Kumar, Bishwambhar Sengupta, Creighton Don, Minsun Kim · 2026
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Kent Wallner and eleven co-authors test a radiation treatment for heart stents that keep narrowing again, in a research paper from 2026. A stent holds a heart artery open, but scar tissue can close it again. Some patients face this problem again and again in the same vessel.
The treatment places a tiny radiation source inside the vessel for a short time. The team compared how long each vessel stayed open before and after treatment, in nineteen patients. The open period grew from a typical three months to about a year. The authors say radiation inside the vessel is a useful option for these stubborn cases.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kent Wallner, Kathleen E. Kearney, Joseph M. DeCunha, Edward Y. Kim, Lorenzo Azzalini, Michael R. Folkert, George Sandison, William L. Lombardi, Sant Kumar, Bishwambhar Sengupta, Creighton Don, Minsun Kim |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |