Safety and Long-Term Efficacy of Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty following Rotational Atherectomy for Severely Calcified Coronary Lesions Compared with New Generation Drug-Eluting Stents

Table 3

Acute procedural outcomes.

	DCB-iRA patients; (n=54)	nDES-iRA patients; (n=69)	P value
Procedure success (%)	53 (98.1)	68 (98.6)	1.0
Patient success (%)	54 (100)	68 (98.6)
Crossover (%)	1 (1.9)	0	1.0
Major complications			1.0
Death (%)	0	1 (1.4)
MI (%)	0	1 (1.4)
CABG (%)	0	0
Congestive heart failure (%)	0	2 (2.9)
Minor complications			1.0
Ventricular fibrillation (%)	0	1 (1.4)
Side branch occlusions (%)	0	1 (1.4)
RA complications
Perforation (%)	0	0	1.0
TIMI 0 slow flow (%)	0	2 (2.9)	0.12
TIMI 1 slow flow (%)	0	2 (2.9)
TIMI 2 slow flow (%)	8 (14.8)	4 (5.8)
Dissection; NHLBI classification
A (%)	1 (1.9)	0	0.08
C (%)	1 (1.9)	0
E (%)	1 (1.9)	0

CABG, coronary artery bypass graft surgery; MI, myocardial infarction; RA rotational atherectomy.