Short- and Mid-Term Prognosis of Patients Undergoing Rotational Atherectomy in Aortoostial Coronary Lesions in Left Main or Right Coronary Arteries

Table 3

Procedural characteristics.

	Aortoostial lesions n=80 (%)	Nonostial lesions n=418 (%)	p-value
Radial approach	33 (41.3)	240 (57.4)	0.017
Guide catheter size
6F	34 (42.5)	181 (43.9)	0.95
7F	43 (53.8)	212 (51.5)	0.95
Procedure duration (min)	83 ± 50	87± 46	0.51
Mean contrast medium volume (ml)	194 ± 92	213 ± 94	0.10
> 1 burr requirement	50 (62.5)	219 (52.4)	0.05
Burr to artery ratio	0.43 ± 0.08	0.46 ± 0.08	0.002
Number of stents/lesions	1.33 ± 0.57	1.37 ± 0.58	0.49
Stent			0,07
DES only	57 (71,3%)	328 (80,2%)
DES or bare metal stent	23 (28,8%)	81 (19,2%)
Procedural success rate	77 (96.3)	396 (94.7)	0.78

() missing data for 9 patients.