Infrapatellar

LIFE-BTK | Critical Limb Ischemia: Use of Bioresorbable Scaffold in Infrapatellar Lesions (LIFE-BTK)

Advanced stages of peripheral artery disease cause significant limitations in patients, such as critical limb ischemia (CLI),...

TCT 2023 The LIFE-BTK Trial

This was a randomized study including 261 patients treated with infrapatellar percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.173 of these patients...

BASIL-2: Revascularization of Infra-Popliteal Territory in Patients with Critical Lower Limb Ischemia

Results of infrapopliteal territory revascularization in critical limb ischemia. Compared against the general population, patients suffering from critical...

Watch again our Webinar on Lower Limb Angioplasty: LATAM Peripheral Registry

Watch again our Webinar on "Lower Limb Angioplasty: LATAM Peripheral Registry " on our Youtube account. The...

Optimal Medical Treatment Under-used in Vascular Peripheral Disease

Less than half of patients undergoing endovascular revascularization for peripheral artery disease to their lower limbs are...

Diabetes and Peripheral Vascular Disease: Old Drugs, New Evidence

This paper, recently published in JAHA, showed that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus exhibiting lower-limb vascular disease...

Drug-Coated Balloons in Critical Ischemia: The Paradigm of Randomized Evidence vs. Logbooks

This research, which included thousands of patients treated for chronic inferior limb ischemia with drug-coated balloons, did...

How to Determine Optimal Balloon Size in Below-the-Knee Angioplasty

Unlike the coronary and femoral arteries, calcification of medial layers in infrapatellar arteries prevents positive remodeling and...