Association of age with adverse events following coronary atherectomy during percutaneous coronary intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary atherectomy is used to treat severely calcified coronary artery lesions which are more frequent with increasing age, but its impact in older adults has not been sufficiently examined.

Methods

We compared adults ≥ 18 years old who underwent coronary atherectomy during inpatient PCI in 2016-2023 from the Vizient Clinical Data Base and compared outcomes in younger (< 65 years), youngest-old (65-74 years), middle-old (75-84 years), and oldest-old (≥ 85 years) adults. Primary outcome was in-hospital mortality, and secondary outcomes included postprocedural complications.

Results

Among 47,337 patients who underwent coronary atherectomy, 19,862 (42.0%) were younger adults and 27,475 (58.0%) were older adults, including 13,583 youngest-old, 10,206 middle-o

SUBMITTER: Park DY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12209150 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature