Diagnosis and management challenges of in-stent restenosis in coronary arteries

Figure 3 Fifty-five-years-old caucasian male with mantle cell radiation for Hodgkin's lymphoma complicated with radiation heart valve disease with severe aortic valve stenosis status post mehanical aortic valve replacement surgery. Few years later he presented with chest pain and had PCI to the proximal LAD and LCx with DES. However, both few months later he developed ISR and underwent another PCI with DES to the proximal LAD and LCx. Patient was referred for vascular brachytherapy for the treatment of ISR of the LCx due to increased chest pain at rest and recurrent ISR of proximal LCx. A: Coronary angiogram showing 90% focal proximal LCx ISR (red arrow); B: Balloon angioplasty of the proximal LCx lesion (red arrow) to prepare the lesion before brachytherapy delivery; C: Coronary angiogram showing the Novoste Beta-Cath™ System that was used to deliver a source train that contains 12 individual radioactive seeds blue arrow to red arrow). Once properly positioned, 23 Gy from the center of the source center was prescribed. The patient was monitored during the dwell time which required 4 min and 49 s; D: Another balloon angioplasty was done after the radioactive seeds are pulled from LCx; E: Final TIMI-III flow in the LCx. PCI: Percutaneous coronary intervention; LAD: Left anterior descending artery; LCx: Left circumflex; DES: Drug-eluting stents; ISR: In-stent restenosis.