Coronary artery stent restenosis responds favorably to repeat interventions

One hundred sixty patients who underwent a percutaneous intervention for tr eatment of in-stent restenosis were evaluated on clinical follow-up to dete rmine the predictors of reintervention, and also to compare rotational athe rectomy with repeat percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) f or this condition. Current smoking and saphenous vein graft location were t he independent predictors of target vessel revascularization (TVR), and the re was no difference in the rate of TVR between rotational atherectomy and re-PTCA.