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| ISSN |
1949-8462 (online) |
| Open Access |
This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Baishideng Publishing Group Inc, 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 160, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA |
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http://www.wjgnet.com |
| Category |
Peripheral Vascular Disease |
| Manuscript Type |
Editorial |
| Article Title |
Revisiting endovascular treatment in below-the-knee disease. Are drug-eluting stents the best option?
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Invited Manuscript |
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Stavros Spiliopoulos, Panagiotis M Kitrou and Elias N Brountzos |
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| Corresponding Author |
Stavros Spiliopoulos, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, 2nd Department of Radiology，Division of Interventional Radiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens 12461, Greece. stavspiliop@med.uoa.gr |
| Key Words |
Critical limb ischemia; Infrapopliteal arterial disease; Drug-eluting stents; Peripheral arterial disease; Balloon angioplasty |
| Core Tip |
The use of infrapopliteal drug-eluting stents (DES) remains limited in clinical practice mainly due to concerns regarding the deployment of a permanent metallic scaffold and the possibility of valid future therapeutic perspectives. However, these concerns are not scientifically justified. Large-scale, multicenter randomized controlled trials investigating a significantly larger number of patients would consolidate the use of infrapopliteal DES in critical limb ischemia patients. Moreover, there is still little evidence on whether this technology can be as effective for longer lesions, where a considerable number of DES is required. The development and investigation of longer balloon-expanding or self-expanding DES could solve this problem. |
| Publish Date |
2018-11-26 00:48 |
| Citation |
Spiliopoulos S, Kitrou PM, Brountzos EN. Revisiting endovascular treatment in below-the-knee disease. Are drug-eluting stents the best option? World J Cardiol 2018; 10(11): 196-200 |
| URL |
http://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8462/full/v10/i11/196.htm |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v10.i11.196 |
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