Meta-analysis of Individual Patient Data After Kissing Stent Treatment for Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate short- and long-term technical and clinical outcomes after kissing stent treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD) based on an individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis.

Materials and methods

A search of the Scopus database identified 156 articles on KS treatment of AIOD; of these 22 met the inclusion criteria. Authors of 19 articles with contact information were approached to join an IPD consortium. Eight author groups responded and 5 provided anonymized data for merging into an IPD database. The number of included procedures was equal before and after 2005. The primary study outcome was the cumulative patency at 24 months. Secondary outcomes were patency at up to 60 months, complications, and changes in Rutherford category and ankle-brachia

SUBMITTER: Groot Jebbink E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6330696 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature