Endovascular Therapies for Noncoronary Atherosclerosis in the Elderly: Aortoiliac and Femorotibial Lesions

Abstract

Many interventional cardiologists are becoming interested in the interventional treatment of noncoronary atherosclerotic disease. The elderly may be especially benefited by the application of many new techniques for the treatment of lower limb atherosclerosis, such as protection and thromboaspiration devices, new atherectomy devices, and cryoplasty. In this review the authors offer geriatric cardiologists an overview and an update of the most recent advances in techniques and results in the field of interventional treatment of aortoiliac and femorotibial artery atherosclerosis in the elderly.

Quantification of Endothelial αvβ3 Expression with High-Frequency Ultrasound and Targeted Microbubbles: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies

“…(ii) assessment of the far-wall plaque which is now very limited for non-targeted microbubbles because of the pseudo-enhancement artifact resulting from freefloating microbubbles in the lumen (ten Kate et al 2012). In our study, we chose the carotid artery vessels as the target for examination for the following reasons: First, it is believed that the carotid artery is the most reproducible site for studies of lesions in mice (Ni et al 2009;Rigatelli and Zanchetta 2005). Second, the carotid artery vessels are superficially located and hence readily accessible for ultrasound imaging systems.…”