Vessel Preparation Is Essential to Optimize Endovascular Therapy of Infrainguinal Lesions.

ABSTRACT: Symptomatic peripheral arterial disease management involves medical treatment and interventional procedures. Intermittent claudication and critical limb threatened ischemia (CLTI) should be individually considered with specific outcomes and procedures. When intervention is required, an endovascular approach is usually the first-line option. Plain balloon angioplasty was previously used to dilate clinically significant femoropopliteal lesions with variable results. However, over recent years, the use of self-expanding nitinol stents has enabled treatment of long lesions, yielding significantly improved clinical results. Drug-eluting technology has also exhibited a capacity to limit in-stent restenosis and to drive target revascularization. Nevertheless, calcifications and elastic recoil of

SUBMITTER: Saucy F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539040 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature