The development of the drug-eluting stent (DES) created a milestone in the field of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by markedly reducing the rates of in-stent restenosis (ISR) compared to the bare metal stent (BMS). The development of a thinner strut and biocompatible or bioresorbable polymer coating in newer generation DES has enhanced the efficacy and safety of DES. However, along with the widespread use of this newer generation DES in most clinical conditions, including high-risk patients with more complicated lesion profiles, ISR has continued to be a major concern, even in the era of newer generation DES (1). The incidence of ISR ranges from 3% up to 20% of patients (1). The clinical importance of ISR should be further emphasized, since more than half of ISR patients present with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) such as unstable angina or acute myocardial infarction (1), and patients who have been treated for ISR consistently show higher rates of future adverse cardiovascular events compared to those without ISR (2). In this regards, decision regarding optimal treatment option for ISR lesion should be considered even in contemporary era of PCI using newer generation DES. In order to address this issue, our group recently published the first network meta-analysis which compared clinical and angiographic outcomes among DES, DEB, and plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA). As specifically discussed in the previous editorials (3-6), our group firstly presented the superior efficacy and safety of DEB and DES, compared with POBA, and comparable efficacy and safety between DEB and DES to treat BMS or DES ISR lesion. Although DEB and DES showed similar risk of MI, DEB tended to show lower risk of MI during follow-up period, compared with DES. Although the network meta-analysis by our group comprehensively summarized previous evidences from 11 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with 2,059 patients with BMS or DES ISR, some unsolved issues are worth to be discussed.First, it should be considered that there has been relatively scarce evidence which evaluated newer generation DES as treatment option for ISR. Current European Society of Cardiology/European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (ESC/EACTS) guidelines recommend drug-eluting balloon (DEB) and DES as class IA recommendations for the treatment of BMS or DES-ISR (7). However, most previous studies, which evaluated DEB as a treatment option for ISR, compared its safety and efficacy to first generation DES, which is no longer used in daily clinical practice (1,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Our network meta-analysis also shared the common limitation. Among the included trials, 6 out of 7 RCTs which had a DES arm to treat ISR in the previous network metaanalysis, actually used old-fashioned 1 st generation DES such as sirolimus-eluting or paclitaxel-eluting stents. Among the included RCTs, only the RIBS-V trial used 2 nd generation everolimus-eluting stent (Xience Prime, EES) which has been proved to be superior to 1 st generation DES (13).In the RIBS-V trial, DES w...