It was reported in the literature article, directional atherectomy of the common femoral artery: complications and outcomes, , that patients participated in a study between july 2017 and december 2018 that the use of directional atherectomy (da) with or without drug-coated balloon (dcb) may be considered for the management of common femoral artery (cfa) occlusive disease because of its minimally invasive nature with early mobilization, reduced incision complications, and infection rates.Hawkone, spider fx and in.Pact admiral devices were used in the study.A total of 25 patients underwent common femoral artery directional atherectomy of which 2 had an occluded cfa, and 23 had >70% cfa stenosis as determined by ultrasound scan (uss) and/or computed tomography angiogram (cta) preoperatively.Hawkone and spider fx devices were used in all cases.In.Pact admiral devices were used where there was a residual stenosis >50% after atherectomy.There were no deaths within 30 days.Procedure-related complications included 2 cases of cfa pseudoaneurysm (one of them repaired by open surgery) and 1 cfa perforation (repaired with covered stent).No distal embolization or limb loss occurred.One pseudoaneurysm 12 hr after the procedure and 1 cfa bleeding during atherectomy.There was 1 death from a myocardial infarct, which was not procedure related.Ten patients reached 12 months of follow-up.Nine had a patent atherectomized cfa with no significant restenosis.There were no major amputations or deaths.
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