Background-Treatment of in-stent restenosis with paclitaxel-coated balloon catheter as compared with plain balloon angioplasty has shown surprisingly low late lumen loss at 6 months and fewer major adverse cardiac events up to 2 years. We compared the efficacy and safety of a paclitaxel-coated balloon with a paclitaxel-eluting stent as the current standard of care. Methods and Results-One hundred thirty-one patients with coronary in-stent restenosis were randomly assigned to treatment by a paclitaxel-coated balloon (3 g/mm 2 ) or a paclitaxel-eluting stent. The main inclusion criteria encompassed diameter stenosis of Ն70% and Յ22 mm in length, with a vessel diameter of 2.5 to 3.5 mm. The primary end point was angiographic in-segment late lumen loss. Quantitative coronary angiography revealed no differences in baseline parameters. At 6 months follow-up, in-segment late lumen loss was 0.38Ϯ0.61 mm in the drug-eluting stent group versus 0.17Ϯ0.42 mm (Pϭ0.03) in the drug-coated balloon group, resulting in a binary restenosis rate of 12 of 59 (20%) versus 4 of 57 (7%; Pϭ0.06). At 12 months, the rate of major adverse cardiac events were 22% and 9%, respectively (Pϭ0.08). This difference was primarily due to the need for target lesion revascularization in 4 patients (6%) in the coated-balloon group, compared with 10 patients (15%) in the stent group (Pϭ0.15).
Conclusions-Treatment
Treatment of coronary stenosis in small coronary vessels with the paclitaxel-coated balloon was well tolerated. It may offer an alternative to the implantation of a drug-eluting stent (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00404144).
Percutaneous treatment of bifurcation lesions with a drug-eluting balloon resulted in a procedural success of 100%. Follow-up angiography at nine months showed DES-like results in MB and SB. However, when the DEB was used in combination with a BMS (MB), the possibility of late stent thrombosis cannot be ruled out.
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