Nitinol Stent Versus Bypass in Long Femoropopliteal Lesions

Evaluation of the 4-French Pulsar-18 Self-expanding Nitinol Stent in Long Femoropopliteal Lesions

PURPOSE To evaluate the patency and the freedom of target lesion revascularization of the 4-French Pulsar-18 self-expandable (SE) nitinol stent for the treatment of long femoropopliteal occlusive disease in a two-center, prospective, all-comers registry with a follow-up period of 12 months. METHODS This registry enrolled 36 patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal long lesions for recanaliza...

“ Nitinol Stent Implantation Versus Balloon Angioplasty for

Letter by Chalmers Regarding Article “Nitinol Stent Implantation Versus Balloon Angioplasty for Lesions in the Superficial Femoral Artery and Proximal Popliteal Artery: Twelve-Month Results From the RESILIENT Randomized Trial” To the Editor: The authors of the RESILIENT trial1 have adopted a trial design that by their own admission is controversial. They have randomly assigned patients to eithe...

Direct Stenting in Long Femoropopliteal Lesions

Endovascular treatment strategies for the relief of symptomatic lower extremity PVD secondary to femoropopliteal (FP) artery disease are changing at an unprecedented fast rate. Improved metallic stent designs, novel devices and techniques, and improvements to past therapeutic concepts have recently emerged, providing new and challenging options to the mainstay of percutaneous transluminal angio...

Femoropopliteal Bypass Anastomotic Stenosis with the aSpire Covered Stent

Assessment of self-expanding nitinol stent deformation after chronic implantation into the femoropopliteal arteries.

AIMS The purpose of this prospective clinical investigation was to quantify the degree and range of compressive and bending deformations sustained by self-expanding nitinol stents when implanted into the femoropopliteal arteries of patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease (PVD). METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-three nitinol self-expanding stents (Absolute; Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara...