Sirolimus-eluting stents for treatment of infrapopliteal arteries reduce clinical event rate compared to bare-metal stents: Long-term results from a randomized trial

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 587-591

  Rastan, Aljoscha ^a   Brechtel, Klaus ^b   Krankenberg, Hans ^c   Zahorsky, Rainer ^d   Tepe, Gunnar ^e   Noory, Elias ^a   Schwarzwälder, Uwe ^a   MacHarzina, Roland ^a   Schwarz, Thomas ^a   Bürgelin, Karlheinz ^a   Sixt, Sebastian ^c   Tübler, Thilo ^c   Neumann, Franz Josef ^a   Zeller, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Herzzentrum Hamburg West   (Germany)

^e Klinikum Rosenheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

angioplasty; infrapopliteal arteries; limb salvage; peripheral artery disease; sirolimus eluting stent

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFRAPOPLITEAL ARTERY LESION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS;

EID: 84864666959     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.04.035     Document Type: Article

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