Mortality Not Correlated With Paclitaxel Exposure: An Independent Patient-Level Meta-analysis of a Drug-Coated Balloon

Review of two randomized controlled trials and two prospective single-arm studies performed at 147 sites in 28 countries. Data from 1837 patients treated with paclitaxel drug-coated balloon (P-DCB) and 143 patients treated with uncoated percutaneous transluminal angioplasty showed that there was no significant difference in all-cause mortality between the two treatment groups through 5 years. This independent patient-level meta-analysis...