Abstract:Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of shockwave intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) under the guidance of optical coherence tomography (OCT) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) in the treatment of patients with coronary artery calcification (CAC).Methods A total of 98 patients with CAC lesions (104 lesions) admitted to the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of Huai’an First Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University from February 2021 to February 2024 were divided into two groups according to different treatment methods. The 47 patients in the control group (51 lesions) were given IVUS-guided IVL, while the 51 cases (53 lesions) in the observation group were given OCT-guided IVL. The treatment effect of the two groups was compared.Results The success rates of operation in the observation group and the control group were both 100.00%. There was no significant difference in the pre-dilation balloon diameter, maximum pre-dilation balloon pressure, number of stents implanted, stent diameter, total stent length, post-dilation balloon diameter, maximum post-dilation balloon pressure, or procedure time between the observation group and the control group (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference between the observation group and the control group in the proximal reference vessel minimal lumen diameter (MLD), maximal lumen diameter (MaxLD), and lumen area, distal reference vessel MLD, lumen area, and reference area, or lesion-site MaxLD and minimal lumen area (MLA) (P > 0.05). The distal reference vessel MaxLD and lesion-site MLD in the observation group were both smaller than those in the control group (P < 0.05). There were no statistically significant differences between the observation group and the control group in the changes in lesion vessel diameter or the degree of vessel stenosis before and after treatment (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference in thrombolysis in myocardial infarction flow grades between the observation group and the control group (P > 0.05). The incidence of adverse events in the observation group was lower than that in the control group (P < 0.05).Conclusion Both OCT and IVUS play important roles in guiding IVL for the treatment of CAC lesions, and OCT-guided IVL is associated with a lower incidence of adverse events.