In patients with common femoral artery disease, balloon angioplasty plus stenting if needed achieves acceptable restenosis and target lesion revascularization (TLR) rates at 1 year. The results render ...

Chrysant, who was tasked with arguing that endovascular therapy is an acceptable treatment for common femoral artery lesions, said it is important to understand the anatomy before considering a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with endovascular therapy, thromboendarterectomy surgery was associated with better 1-year patency, but ...

THE extensive clinical experience now reported has demonstrated the value of a surgical approach in the management of peripheral arterial diseases. The use of bypass procedures by Crawford et al. 1 ...

One-year results of the DETOUR2 trial published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery demonstrate outstanding results for Endologix LLC’s percutaneous transmural arterial bypass system for treatment of ...

In elderly high-risk patients, transfemoral TAVR with a self-expanding device improves quality of life (QoL) more than does surgery within the first month, according to an analysis of the CoreValve US ...

When treating femoral artery (SFA) lesions, the Zilver PTX® Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent shows sustained effectiveness compared to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, even in diabetic patients, ...

The radial approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces vascular access site complications when compared with the femoral approach and results in similar success rates. These findings ...

An Indian-American doctor has invented a device to help prevent complications connected with a type of surgery used to treat heart disease. Pennsylvania-based Dr. Samir Pancholy developed the device, ...