Zamani et al 2020 ¿ (zilver ptx)¿outcomes after endovascular stent placement for long-segment superficial femoral artery lesions¿.All cases were either primarily stented or followed angioplasty when the degree of residual stenosis exceeded 50% or when a flow-limiting dissection was identified.Technical success was defined as re-establishment of sfa patency with flow across the target lesion with less than 30% re-sidual stenosis on completion angiography.The des (n=57) was self-expanding nitinol stents with a polymer-free pacli-taxel coating (zilver ptx; cook medical, blooming-ton, in).Target lesion revascularization.Symptoms at stent occlusion included claudication (4), rest pain or tissue loss (6) and acute limb ischemia (ali) (1).Stented lesions collectively required 11 endovascular and 2 open revasculatization attempts.The vast majority of both endovascular and open reinterventions occurred within 18 months of initial stent placement.Among the cases with ali, 8 (47% of overall cohort) required an open arterial bypass of the target lesion, all of whom were in patients initially treated with cs.
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