Average age.Sex: majority gender.Date of event: date of publication, article title feasibility and mid-term outcomes of drug-coated balloon angioplasty between intermittent claudication and critical limb ischemia in patients with femoropopliteal disease chien-an hsieh et al.Peripheral arterial occlusive disease acta cardiol sin 2019;35:308_319 308 doi: 10.6515/acs.201905_35(3).20181116a.If information is provided in the future, a supplemental report will be issued.
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This article aims to investigate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of dcbs in symptomatic femoropopliteal disease between patients with intermittent claudication (ic) and cli and is based on a retrospective analysis.It reports on 151 patients who underwent dcb angioplasty for symptomatic femoropopliteal disease.The angiographic inclusion criteria were de novo, restenotic and in-stent stenotic or occlusive femoropopliteal lesions.Concomitant interventions for iliac or tibial lesions were allowed in the study patients.Clinical characteristics and outcomes regarding binary restenosis, amputation-free survival (afs), and major adverse limb events (males) between groups were compared.Of the drug-coated balloons used, medtronic¿s in.Pact admiral device was included.Bare metal stents (bmss) were implanted in cases of suboptimal angiographic results or flow-limiting dissections after treatment with the dcbs.Over 60-month follow-up period 33 patients are reported to have died (4 ic and 29 cli).3 patients¿ (1 ic and 2 cli) underwent major amputations.66 treated limbs are reported to have developed re-stenosis after dcb treatment.Of these patient¿s 45 underwent repeat endovascular therapy (evt) due to symptom recurrence.The author concluded that despite advanced limb ischemia and comorbidities, the mid-term outcomes in surviving cli patients were similar to those in the ic patients after treatment with dcbs for femoropopliteal disease.
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