Oriol Rodriguez-Leor, Ana Belen Cid-Alvarez, Maria Lopez-Benito, Nieves Gonzalo, Victoria Vilalta, Jose Antonio Diarte de Miguel, Leticia Fernandez López, Alfonso Jurado-Roman, Alejandro Diego, Juan Francisco Oteo, Carlos Cuellas, Ramiro Trillo, Alejandro Travieso, Fernando Alfonso, Xavier Carrillo, José Miguel Vegas-Valle, Carlos Cortes-Villar, Isaac Pascual, Juan Francisco Muñoz Camacho, Xacobe Flores, Silvio Vera-Vera, Jose Moreu, Gilles Barreira de Sousa, David Martí, Jesus Jimenez-Mazuecos, Monica Fuertes, Raymundo Ocaranza, Jose Maria de la Torre Hernandez, Fernando Lozano, Santiago G Solana Martinez, Josep Gómez-Lara, Armando Perez de Prado
BACKGROUND: Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) has demonstrated effectiveness in the treatment of calcified lesions in selected patients with stable coronary disease. OBJECTIVES: The authors sought to assess the performance of coronary IVL in calcified coronary lesions in a real-life, all comers, setting. METHODS: The REPLICA-EPIC18 study prospectively enrolled consecutive patients treated with IVL in 26 centers in Spain. An independent core laboratory performed the angiographic analysis and event adjudication...
February 15, 2024: JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions