Journal of Vascular Medicine & Surgery

Department of Cardiology, Dokkyo Medical University, Saitama Medical Center 2-1-50 Minami-Koshigaya, Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Current Challenges of Coronary Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty
  Author(s): Kota Yamada, Tetsuya Ishikawa* and Isao Taguchi
  
  In this mini-review, current challenges of coronary Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon (PCB) angioplasty are summarized. Since the outcomes of PCB angioplasty had to be non-inferior to those of Drug-Eluting Stents (DESs), the indications, the optimal endpoints, and the clinical and angiographic outcomes of PCB angioplasty should be reevaluated by comparing with the advances in the DESs outcomes. In our recent reports used the Propensity-Score Matched (PSM) analysis to adjust the baselines, PCB angioplasty demonstrated a similar efficacy to DESs in both of elective and emergent cases of patients with Chronic Coronary Syndromes and Acute Coronary Syndromes (CCS and ACS). PSM analysis showed the considering factors such as non-calcified lesions, lesions with a total PCB length of approximately 20 mm (non-diffuse lesion), and a maximum PCB size of approximately 3.0 mm (non-small vessels). Since a.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2329-6925.23.11.531

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