The DETOUR™ System is indicated for use for percutaneous revascularization in patients with symptomatic femoropopliteal lesions from 200mm to 460mm in length with chronic total occlusions (100mm ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—In the first randomized, head-to-head comparison of two drug-eluting stents in patients with femoropopliteal disease, the Eluvia paclitaxel-eluting stent (Boston Scientific) came out ...

The time of onset of atherosclerotic lesions in the human life-span has never been definitely ascertained. The article by Coran and Warren on arteriographic changes in femoropopliteal ...

IN 1940 Leriche1 described the following clinical features of obstruction of the terminal aorta: fatigue in hips, thighs or calves appearing after exertion; pallor of the legs on elevation; absence ...

All above-knee prosthetic femoropopliteal bypass operations for intermittent claudication done from January, 1990 to December, 2001 in one vascular unit were recorded prospectively in a database ...

However, a new study suggests that nitinol stents provide a feasible alternative to bypass even for lesions of the femoropopliteal artery that are 30 cm in length. Read More. Popular Stories. Today's ...

Femoropopliteal bypass (fem-pop bypass) Content. Femoropopliteal (fem-pop) bypass surgery is used to bypass diseased blood vessels above or below the knee. To bypass the narrowed or blocked blood ...

Pq Bypass Inc. received breakthrough device designation from the FDA for its Detour system, the first to permit fully percutaneous femoropopliteal bypass to treat extremely long, complex blockages in ...

Use of a drug-eluting stent to treat long femoropopliteal lesions appears to be effective, but more restenosis and reinterventions were observed compared with those who had shorter femoropopliteal ...

When restenosis develops in femoropopliteal stents, the odds of recurrence after revascularization with balloon angioplasty depend largely on the type of lesion treated and the reference vessel ...

Both men and women treated with a peripheral stent system exhibited clinical improvement after endovascular intervention, but the benefits were more pronounced and persistent among men, according ...