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Do drug-coated balloons improve outcomes compared to drug-eluting stents or balloon angioplasty in patients with small-vessel coronary artery disease?
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.
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Supports DCB use as DES alternative and over balloon angioplasty in SVD; extends randomized evidence for drug-coated strategies.
The use of DCBs in SVD is associated with comparable outcomes when compared with DES and favorable outcomes when compared with balloon angioplasty.
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Megaly et al. (2018) studied this question.
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