A Comparison of a Drug Coated Balloon With Drug Eluting Stent Strategy for Treating Coronary Bifurcation Lesions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL) remains complex and associated with a higher rate of long-term adverse cardiovascular events due to anatomical and procedural complexity.

Aims

We compared procedural outcomes between a drug coated balloon (DCB) only approach and a 2nd generation drug eluting stent (DES) for treating de novo CBLs.

Methods

We retrospectively identified all patients with CBL treated with either a DCB only or DES only strategy, including all coronary bifurcations and compared a bifurcation-oriented composite endpoint (BOCE) of cardiovascular death, target bifurcation-related myocardial infarction (TB-MI), and clinically driven target bifurcation revascularization (TBR) using nationally obtained clinical outcome measures from 2

SUBMITTER: Corballis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12775198 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature