Stents Trump Balloons for Restoring Blood to Ischemic Limbs - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
VIENNA, Austria, May 3 — There may be light at the end of the tunnel for diseased superficial femoral arteries, which have routinely frustrated endovascular interventions.
A self-expanding, nitinol (nickel-titanium) stent demonstrated significant efficacy in patients with severe claudication or chronic limb ischemia, reported Martin Schillinger, M.D., and colleagues of the Medical University of Vienna in the May 4 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
At six months the restenosis rate by intention-to-treat analysis was 24% in the stent group versus 43% in a balloon angioplasty group (P=0.05), they wrote.
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