Endovascular stents for intermittent claudication.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Endovascular stents have been suggested as a means to improve the patency of arteries after angioplasty in patients with intermittent claudication. This is an update of a Cochrane review published in 2002.

Objectives

The null hypothesis to be tested by this review is that for individuals with claudication the use of an endovascular stent, in addition to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, does not improve symptoms of life-style limiting claudication when compared to percutaneous angioplasty alone.

Search strategy

For this update the Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Group searched their Specialised Register (last searched August 2009) and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in The Cochrane Library (last searched 2009, Issue 3

SUBMITTER: Bachoo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7144684 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature