EBC - ON DEMAND
European Bifurcation Club 2010 – EBC 2010 – Budapest, Hungary
Hot topics
Bifurcation treatment: Interest of the association DES and DEB? preliminary results in a rabbit model
Author: Dr. Patrice Guérin, L’Institut du Thorax, Interventional Cardiology, Nantes University Hospital, France
LIMITATIONS
- Animal model
- Aorto-iliac angioplasty
- Very thin and non atherosclerotic arteries
- Some studies have shown a graded response to the paclitaxel dose (Heldman et al Circ 2001 ; Drachman et al JACC 2000)
PERSPECTIVE
- Pigs coronary arteries model
- What about the association Paclitaxel eluting and balloon and Sirolimus eluting stent (in progress)