Rotational, orbital atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy for coronary calcified nodules: Insights from optical coherence tomography

Rotational, orbital atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy for coronary calcified nodules: Insights from optical coherence tomography

In patients who underwent PCI for coronary calcified nodules, there was no difference in minimum stent area (MSA) or one-year target vessel failure (TVF: cardiac death, target vessel-related MI, and target vessel revascularization) regardless of whether Rotablator (RA), Orbital Atherectomy (OA), or intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) was used, Dr. Keisuke Yasumura and colleagues, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA, reported in the December issue of Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions.

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