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“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” Sir Isaac Newton

Over the last 10 years, the interventional cardiology field has evolved tremendously.1 From the ground-breaking work of Frossmann in the 1960s to Andreas Gruentzig’s successful procedure with a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) balloon catheter in 1977, the application of devices used to open up clogged coronary arteries has expanded manifold.1 As soon as PTCA balloon angioplasty became popular, problems surrounding the use of the plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA) technique emerged in the form of dissections and abrupt ve...