Procedural and One-Year Outcomes of Patients Treated with Orbital and Rotational Atherectomy with Mechanistic Insights from Optical Coherence Tomography

Aims: We sought to evaluate procedural complications and 1-year clinical outcomes for patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with orbital (OA) and rotational atherectomy (RA). Methods and results: From a total of 13,467 patients who underwent PCI in our hospital between January 2013 and June 2016, 1149 consecutive patients were treated with atherectomy for moderately-severely calcified lesions (184 with OA, 965 with RA). Procedural complications were similarly observed ...
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