Cost effectiveness analysis of drug coated balloon only angioplasty for de novo coronary artery disease.

Ioannis MerinopoulosTharusha GunawardenaNatasha CorballisVasiliki TsampasianVassilios S VassiliouSimon EccleshallAlisdair RydingGeorge Xydopoulos

Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2023)

We have compared the cost-effectiveness of DCB-only angioplasty to DES-angioplasty and showed that the per patient and per lesion results were not different and hence cost should not be implicated in the decision to choose DCB or DES.

Keyphrases

coronary artery disease
case report
percutaneous coronary intervention
emergency department
cardiovascular disease
heart failure
atrial fibrillation