Medicine:Cutting balloon

A cutting balloon is an angioplasty device invented by Barath et al. used in percutaneous coronary interventions. It has a special balloon tip with small blades, that are activated when the balloon is inflated. This procedure is different from Rotoblation (Percutaneous Transluminal Rotational Atherectomy or PCRA) whereby a diamond tipped device spins at high revolutions to cut away calcific (chalky) atheroma usually prior to coronary stenting. Boston Scientific's Flextome is the most widely used cutting balloon. Cutting balloons have also been used in the treatment of refractory or recurrent laryngotracheal stenosis, particularly in cases where a dense ring of circumferential fibrosis has formed in the trachea or either bronchus'.

References

• "cutting balloon: A novel approach to percutaneous angioplasty". Am J Cardiol 68 (11): 1249–1251. 1991. doi:10.1016/0002-9149(91)90207-2. PMID 1842213. 
• "Cutting balloon angioplasty.". J Invasive Cardiol 14 (9): 552–6. 2002. PMID 12205358.  Full text
• Cejna M (2005). "Cutting balloon: review on principles and background of use in peripheral arteries.". Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 28 (4): 400–8. doi:10.1007/s00270-004-0115-4. PMID 16034656. 
• "Cutting balloon treatment for resistant benign bronchial strictures: report of eleven patients". J Vasc Interv Radiol 21 (5): 748–52. 2010. doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2010.01.023. PMID 20346700. 
• "Outcome of treating airway compromise due to bronchial stenosis with intralesional corticosteroids and cutting-balloon bronchoplasty". Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 145 (4): 623–7. 2011. doi:10.1177/0194599811413683. PMID 21746843. 
• "Tuberculous Tracheobronchial Strictures Treated with Balloon Dilation: A Single-Center Experience in 113 Patients during a 17-year Period". Radiology 277 (1): 286–93. 2015. doi:10.1148/radiol.2015141534. PMID 25955577. 

External links

• Overview Coronary Artery Disease Treatment - Coronary Interventions ANGIOPLASTY, STENTS AND ATHERECTOMY (Cleveland Clinic)