Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty in Patients Undergoing Complex Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited clinical data on drug-coated balloon (DCB)-based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compared with drug-eluting stent (DES)-only PCI in patients with complex coronary artery lesions.

Objectives

The goal of the current study was to investigate the efficacy of DCB in patients undergoing PCI for complex coronary artery lesions.

Methods

From an institutional registry of patients with de novo complex coronary artery lesions, 126 patients treated with DCB-based PCI were compared with 234 propensity score-matched patients treated with DES-only PCI. Complex coronary artery lesions were defined as the presence of at least 1 of the following: bifurcation, chronic total occlusion, unprotected left main disease, long lesion ≥38 mm, multivessel di

SUBMITTER: Joh HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11291392 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature