Emanuele Barbato, Emanuele Gallinoro, Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Daniele Andreini, Didier Carrié, Carlo Di Mario, Dariusz Dudek, Javier Escaned, Jean Fajadet, Giulio Guagliumi, Jonathan Hill, Margaret McEntegart, Kambis Mashayekhi, Nikolasos Mezilis, Yoshinobu Onuma, Krzyszstof Reczuch, Richard Shlofmitz, Giulio Stefanini, Giuseppe Tarantini, Gabor G Toth, Beatriz Vaquerizo, William Wijns, Flavio L Ribichini
Since the publication of the 2015 EAPCI consensus on rotational atherectomy, the number of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) performed in patients with severely calcified coronary artery disease has grown substantially. This has been prompted on one side by the clinical demand for the continuous increase in life expectancy, the sustained expansion of the primary PCI networks worldwide, and the routine performance of revascularization procedures in elderly patients; on the other side, the availability of new and dedicated technologies such as orbital atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy, as well as the optimization of the rotational atherectomy system, has increased operators' confidence in attempting more challenging PCI...
November 1, 2023: European Heart Journal