Percutaneous interventions below the knee in patients with critical limb ischemia using drug eluting stents

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-191

  Balzer, J O ^a   Zeller, T ^b   Rastan, A ^b   Sixt, S ^b   Vogl, T J ^c   Lehnert, T ^c   Khan, V ^d  

^a Catholic Clinic Mainz   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Drug eluting stents; Outcome assessment (health care)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAFETY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIROLIMUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77953569684     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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