Drug-Eluting Stent vs Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty for Treatment of Femoropopliteal In-Stent Restenosis: Results From a Retrospective 1-Year Multicenter Study

Conclusion: DES implantation may be more effective than PTA in the management of femoropopliteal ISR with occlusion, but equally effective to PTA in nonocclusive ISR lesions. These results require confirmation in prospective randomized studies.

Source: Journal of Endovascular Therapy - July 12, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Murata, N., Takahara, M., Soga, Y., Nakano, M., Yamauchi, Y., Zen, K., Kawasaki, D., Yokoi, H., Tosaka, A., Tanaka, N., Iida, O. Tags: Lower Limb Interventions Source Type: research