Revascularization using a paclitaxel-eluting balloon dramatically improved outcomes in patients with critical lower-limb ischemia -- a condition with notoriously high rates of restenosis -- a single-center European study found.
In the first trial of angioplasty with drug-eluting balloons for lengthy occluded or stenosed infrapopliteal arteries, the restenosis rate at three months was 27.4%, Andrej Schmidt, MD, of Park Hospital Leipzig in Germany, and colleagues reported in the Sept. 6 Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Medpage Today
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