Differential efficacy between stenting and plain balloon angioplasty for femoropopliteal disease with or without total occlusion.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Whether the presence of chronic total occlusion (CTO) affects patency after stenting in femoropopliteal lesions is unknown. We determined the effects of plain balloon angioplasty (POBA) in comparison with those of stenting on patency for femoropopliteal CTO and stenosis (non-CTO).

Methods

We analyzed data from the Korean Vascular Intervention Society Endovascular Therapy in Lower-Limb Artery Diseases Registry, a multicenter cohort of patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease. Data from 1,329 patients and 1558 limbs treated with endovascular intervention for at least one femoropopliteal lesion were evaluated.

Results

Among the 1,558 limbs, 345, 432, 275, and 506 were in the non-CTO-POBA, non-CTO-stent, CTO-POBA, and CTO-stent groups, res

SUBMITTER: Chae IH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487302 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature