Incidence of stent fractures and patency after femoropopliteal stenting with the nitinol self-expandable SMART stent: A single-center study

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 678-682

  Trabattoni, Daniela ^a   Agrifoglio, Marco ^a   Cappai, Antioco ^a   Bartorelli, Antonio L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

femoral stenting; long term patency; percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; stent fractures

Indexed keywords

NITINOL;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLAUDICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL STENTING; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; LEG; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSION; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; STENT FRACTURE; STENT OCCLUSION; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLOYS; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77955232235     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3283383370     Document Type: Article

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