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Background: Use of drug coated balloons (DCBs) in coronary intervention is escalating. There is a plethora of data on Paclitaxcel-DCB. However, when it comes of stents, Limus-drugs are preferred over Paclitaxel. There is very limited data on Sirolimus coated balloons (SCB). MagicTouch-SCB (Concept Medical, FL) elutes Sirolimus via nano-technology and have been used in our centers since March 2018. We report a mid-term follow-up with this relatively novel-technology.
Methods And Results: We retrospectively analyzed all patients treated with MagicTouch-SCB between March-2018 and February-2019. Results are reported as cardiac-death, target-vessel myocardial-infarction (TVMI), target lesion revascularization (TLR) and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE). During the study period, 288-patients (373-lesions) with a mean age of 65.8 were treated with MagicTouch-SCB. 84% (n = 241) were male, 155 (54%) were in the setting of acute coronary syndrome, 38% (n = 110) had diabetes and 62% (n = 233) were in de-novo lesions. Most lesions treated were in the LAD/diagonal-system (n = 170; 46%). Pre-dilatation was performed in 92% (n = 345) of cases. Bailout stenting was required in 9% lesions (n = 35). The mean diameter and length of SCBs were 2.64 ± 0.56 mm and 24 ± 8.9 mm respectively. During a median follow-up of 363 days (IQR: 278-435), cardiac death and TVMI occurred in 5-patients (1.7%) and 10-patients (3.4%) respectively, TLR per-lesion was 12%. The MACE rate was 10%. There were no documented cases of acute vessel closure.
Conclusions: The results from mid-term follow-up with this relatively new technology SCB is encouraging with a low rates of hard endpoints and acceptable MACE rates despite complex group of patients and lesion subsets.
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