Angioplasty of femoral-popliteal arteries with drug-coated balloons: 5-year follow-up of the THUNDER Trial

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 102-108

  Tepe, Gunnar ^a   Schnorr, Beatrix ^b   Albrecht, Thomas ^c   Brechtel, Klaus ^d   Claussen, Claus D ^d   Scheller, Bruno ^e   Speck, Ulrich ^b   Zeller, Thomas ^f  

^a Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology RoMed Clinic Rosenheim   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c VIVANTES KLINIKUM NEUKÖLLN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Drug coated balloon; Femoral artery; Long term outcome; Paclitaxel; Peripheral arterial disease

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL; BIOMATERIAL; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANEURYSM; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICES; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIMB SALVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACLITAXEL; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICES;

EID: 84921404014     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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