Do drug-coated balloons improve outcomes compared to drug-eluting stents or balloon angioplasty in patients with small-vessel coronary artery disease?
Drug-coated balloons offer comparable outcomes to drug-eluting stents and superior outcomes to plain balloon angioplasty in small-vessel coronary artery disease.
The use of DCBs in SVD is associated with comparable outcomes when compared with DES and favorable outcomes when compared with balloon angioplasty.
Megaly et al. (Thu,) studied this question.