This journal article was published to report a retrospective analysis of 80 patients with a juxta-anastomotic stenosis of distal radiocephalic arteriovenous fistula between january 2016 and september 2017.Patients were divided into two groups according to the type of treatment as drug-coated balloon ¿ percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (n = 44) and plain balloon ¿ percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (n = 43).Intra- and post-procedural data were recorded.Both groups had mature fistulas, and the mean age of fistula was 11.3 ± 9.1 months in the drug-coated balloon ¿ percutaneous transluminal angioplasty group and 10.3 ± 8.8 months in the plain balloon ¿ percutaneous transluminal angioplasty group.A non-medtronic balloon was used for the plain balloon group and in.Pact admiral was used as the dcb of choice for the treatment of the dcb group.Acetylsalicylic acid (100 mg/day) was prescribed in both gro ups after the procedure.Routine follow-up was performed with cdus at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, and target lesion primary patency (tlpp) was evaluated.There was no significant difference in the target lesion stenosis rate and the median lesion length between the groups.Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient groups are shown in table 1.Technical and clinical success were achieved in both groups.Although tlpp was similar at 6 months between the groups (93.1% vs 81.3%, respectively; p = 0.14), the dcb-pta group had significantly higher rates at 12 months (81.8% vs 51.1%, respectively; p = 0.01) (table 2).During follow-up, 8 patients in the dcb-pta group and 21 patients in the pb-pta group required reintervention due to target lesion-related stenosis.The kaplan¿meier plot showed a statistically significant difference in the tlpp rates between the group.No further injury is reported.
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