Kim Houlind,Johnny K Christensen,Jørn M Jepsen
Kim Houlind
Conventional bypass surgery is only possible when patent distal arterial outflow vessels are available. In patients with critical limb ischemia and occluded distal arteries, attempts have been made to establish retrograde perfusion through ...
L Rangel-Castilla,K V Snyder,A H Siddiqui et al.
L Rangel-Castilla et al.
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is the leading cause of long-term disability and the second cause of death worldwide. Intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) remains the only FDA-approved treatment for AIS. The use of IV tPA in AIS ...
How does a drug-coated balloon work? Overview about coating technologies and their impact [0.03%]
药物涂层球囊的工作原理是什么？关于涂层技术及其影响的概述
U Speck,N Stolzenburg,D Peters et al.
U Speck et al.
Background: According to current understanding the drug-coated balloon carries a sufficient dose of an effective antineoplastic agent, i.e. paclitaxel, to the target lesion. ...
F Fanelli,A Cannavale
F Fanelli
Patients with infra-popliteal arterial disease are generally considered challenging due to the usual presence of multi-vessel atherosclerotic disease. Several treatment options have been used by different authors but none of them can be con...
What are the potential limitations of drug coated balloons (DCBs) and possible ways to overcome [0.03%]
药物涂层球囊(DCBs)的潜在局限性及可能的解决方法
M Werk
M Werk
In several independent randomized clinical studies, it has been shown that DCBs cause persistent clinically meaningful and statistically significant inhibition of restenosis in femoropopliteal arteries in comparison to percutaneous translum...
Jörg Tessarek
Jörg Tessarek
Intimal hyperplasia is a physiologic response to wall injury and represents the essential weak point of endovascular treatment. In the coronary segment, drug eluting stents (DES) have shown their effectiveness in suppressing this response a...
Joseph Touma,Raphaël Coscas,Isabelle Ijaverliat et al.
Joseph Touma et al.
Common femoral artery puncture for ilio-femoral angioplasty can be hazardous or cumbersome in specific situations that require upper limb access (presence of a hostile groin, previous femoral surgery, cross-over maneuver in the setting of b...
Loraine Fisch,Martin M Brown
Loraine Fisch
As a stenosis becomes more severe, blood flow through it increases in velocity to maintain volume, flow and pressure. But there is a critical point beyond which further increase in stenosis no longer allows sufficient blood to pass through ...
Ross Naylor
Ross Naylor
It has been reported that 0.5-1% of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy with prosthetic patch closure of the arteriotomy will develop patch infection. One third occur within the first 2 months after surgery, while two-thirds occur af...
Rachael O Forsythe,Robert J Hinchliffe
Rachael O Forsythe
Management of peripheral artery disease (PAD) and critical limb ischemia (CLI) in the patient with diabetes is an ever-important challenge for the vascular specialist. Patients with diabetes and CLI represent a unique subset--due to the dif...