Balloon catheter for treatment of peripheral artery disease

摘要

A method of treating peripheral artery diseases in lower limbs by providing a medical device having an expandable member having a drug coating layer which has a crystalline morphological form including a plurality of crystal particles of a water-insoluble drug regularly arranged and uniformly sized on the surface of the medical device, inserting the medical device in peripheral blood vessels, expanding the expandable member, pressing the drug coating layer to a blood vessel wall such that at least part of the plurality of crystals are transferred to the blood vessel wall, and deflating the expandable member such that a pharmacokinetics profile is presented in which a drug concentration in the blood vessels is kept for the inhibition of smooth muscle cell proliferation in a high drug-concentration period of time, and for the non-inhibition of endothelial cell growth in a later low drug-concentration period of time.