Cilostazol effectiveness in reducing drug-coated stent restenosis in the superficial femoral artery: The ZERO study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Drug-eluting stents (DESs) play an important role in endovascular therapy (EVT) for femoropopliteal (FP) lesions. Cilostazol improves patency after bare-metal nitinol stent (BNS) implantation for femoropopliteal lesions. This study aimed to establish whether cilostazol is effective in improving the patency of DESs and determine whether BNS or DESs with or without cilostazol are more effective in improving the 12-month patency after EVT for FP lesions.

Materials and methods

In this prospective, open-label, multicenter study, 85 patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease due to de novo FP lesions were enrolled and treated with DESs with cilostazol from eight cardiovascular centers between April 2018 and May 2019. They were compared with 255 patients from the D

SUBMITTER: Miura T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9262206 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature