At 6 and 12 months, time to loss of target lesion patency was 153 and 266 days in the DCB group and 142 and 238 days in the control group, respectively, with Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrating a trend towards improved patency that did not reach statistical significance at 6 months (P=0.07) and converged at 12 months (P=0.37).
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While the degree of LLL was of borderline significance, both access circuit failures (DCB =45 and control =67) and target lesion failures (DCB =33 and control =62) were significantly decreased in the DCB group compared to the control group (P=0.017 and P=0.002, respectively).