Services provided a transitional pass through (TPT) payment, which offset the additional up-
front cost incurred by hospitals when outpatient FP interventions included DCB use. Thus …

COVER STORY “... the SFA is a very harsh environment for any endovascular device.” of the
control arm, which utilized the bare nitinol Smart stents (Cordis Endovascular, a Johnson & …

Aim The study aimed to assess how SFA disease is treated in patients with critical limb
ischaemia and patients with claudication. Method Data was collected from the …

COVER STORY the coronary arteries by Dr. Peter Barath and was initially called the Barath
Balloon. 6 The device is composed of a conventional balloon catheter with 3 to 4 …

Midulla et al 503 reimbursed in different health systems and even variable in the same
country. Nevertheless, physical exercise, either SET or home-based exercise training, has …

Placing stents in the superficial femoral artery (SFA) provides crisp clean angiographic
vessel boundaries that admittedly leave the operator with a gratifying feeling during the …

The current evolution towards treating more complex femoropopliteal lesions as seen in the
renewed TASC II recommendations clearly reflects the continuous evolutions in …

Within the last years, many new endovascular treatment modalities have been invented for
treatment of peripheral arterial disease. To leave nothing behind and to keep options for …

SFA more complicated due to poor methodology, a bad primary endpoint, and/or the
absence of clinical improvement. Moreover, the lack of direct comparisons between devices …

“Once SFA in-stent restenosis or occlusion occurs (particularly when it is diffuse), there is no
proven effective therapy.” ing concern about stent fracture, alternative nonstent options for …