Long-term Results of ePTFE Stent-Graft versus Angioplasty in the Femoropopliteal Artery: Single Center Experience from a Prospective, Randomized Trial

ACC/AHA 2005 Practice Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Peripheral Arterial Disease (Lower Extremity, Renal, Mesenteric, and Abdominal Aortic)

“…Investigational randomized trials suggest that endovascular brachytherapy may reduce restenosis rates of PTA and stenting in the femoral-popliteal arteries (469)(470)(471)(472)(473). Techniques to be investigated in randomized trials in the peripheral circulation include fabric-covered stents (474,475) and drug-coated stents (476,477).…”

Nitinol Stent Implantation Versus Balloon Angioplasty for Lesions in the Superficial Femoral Artery and Proximal Popliteal Artery

“…2 For more complex disease and longer lesions, the results with PTA are poor. [3][4][5][6][7][8] A recent analysis of the published experience of PTA for SFA lesions up to 15 cm in length (mean, 8.7 cm) revealed a 12-month primary patency rate of only 33%. 4 For lesions Ͼ10 cm in length, primary patency rates have been reported to be as low as 20% at 1 year.…”

Interventional Neuroradiological Techniques for the Treatment of Aneurysms of the Supra-aortic Extracranial Arteries

“…21) A covered stent might be considered the easiest and most effective way to preserve the parent artery as this can exclude the aneurysm immediately. 5) However, stent patency is partially dependent on the graft material used, 20) and variable results for covered stent deployment, both peripheral and central, are reported. Primary patency was 72% with PTFE-covered devices in the superficial femoral artery at 8 months, 4) patency with PTFE-covered stents was 93% in the femoropopliteal artery, 20) and primary patency for a polyethylene terephthalate-covered stent graft was 59% at 18 months.…”

“…5) However, stent patency is partially dependent on the graft material used, 20) and variable results for covered stent deployment, both peripheral and central, are reported. Primary patency was 72% with PTFE-covered devices in the superficial femoral artery at 8 months, 4) patency with PTFE-covered stents was 93% in the femoropopliteal artery, 20) and primary patency for a polyethylene terephthalate-covered stent graft was 59% at 18 months. 24) Progressive asymptomatic Treatment of Supra-aortic Extracranial Artery Aneurysms carotid artery occlusion occurred in the only patient treated for carotid pseudo-aneurysm with covered stent 3 months after stent deployment, but not in 4 patients treated with uncovered stents.…”