A comparison of a drug coated balloon with drug eluting stent strategy for treating coronary bifurcation lesions

Corballis, Natasha, Merinopoulos, Ioannis, Bhalraam, U., Gunawardena, Tharusha, Tsampasian, Vasiliki, Natarajan, Rajkumar, Wickramarachchi, Upul, Mohamed, Mohamed, Clark, Allan, Mamas, Mamas A., Vassiliou, Vassilios S. and Eccleshall, Simon and SPARTAN-Norfolk Consortium (2025) A comparison of a drug coated balloon with drug eluting stent strategy for treating coronary bifurcation lesions. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. ISSN 1522-1946

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Abstract

Background: The treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions (CBL) remains complex and associated with a higher rate of long-term adverse cardiovascular events due to anatomical and procedural complexity. Aims: We compared procedural outcomes between a drug coated balloon (DCB) only approach and a 2nd generation drug eluting stent (DES) for treating de novo CBLs. Methods: We retrospectively identified all patients with CBL treated with either a DCB only or DES only strategy, including all coronary bifurcations and compared a bifurcation-oriented composite endpoint (BOCE) of cardiovascular death, target bifurcation-related myocardial infarction (TB-MI), and clinically driven target bifurcation revascularization (TBR) using nationally obtained clinical outcome measures from 2015 to 2019. A propensity score matched analysis was undertaken. Results: Of 2113 patients, 1030 patients were treated with a DCB and 1083 with a DES. There was higher lesion complexity in the DCB group, and propensity score-matched analysis was utilized. This included a total of 2052 patients (1026 in each arm). The median age was 68 (59−75), and all clinical presentations were included. The median follow-up time was 3.6 (2.5−4.8) years with 501 (48.8%) patients having follow-up available at 5 years. Propensity matched analysis showed a significant increase in events (14.0% vs. 9.9% respectively) (HR: 1.39 [1.08−1.79], p = 0.01) when using DES compared to DCB, driven predominantly by an increase in TBR (8.9% vs. 5.0%) (HR: 1.79 [1.27−2.50], p ≤ 0.001) and TB-MI (3.0% vs. 1.6%) (HR: 1.92 [1.05−3.57], p 0.03). Conclusions: The use of DCB-only in a coronary bifurcation is a safe alternative in treating CBL, within the limitations of a retrospective single center analysis. An appropriately designed RCT is now required.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Metabolic Health
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Statistics
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Public Health
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health
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Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2025 15:30
Last Modified: 19 Nov 2025 15:31
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100983
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.70273

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