Does endovascular treatment of infra-inguinal arterial disease with drug-eluting stents offer better results than angioplasty with or without bare metal stents?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 282-285

  Antoniou, George A ^a   Georgakarakos, Efstratios I ^b   Antoniou, Stavros A ^c   Georgiadis, George S ^b  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Drug eluting stents; Endovascular; Femoro politeal disease; Infra popliteal disease

Indexed keywords

RAPAMYCIN; METAL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFRAINGUINAL ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMB SALVAGE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING; VASCULAR PATENCY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; STENT; WOUND HEALING;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BENCHMARKING; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84905667802     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivu093     Document Type: Article

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