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Intravascular Ultrasound Outperforms Angiography for Peripheral Artery Disease Treatment

DAIC

The study, called IVUS-DCB, is the first randomized controlled trial to demonstrate the clinical benefits of using IVUS in angioplasty procedures for peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition in which plaque builds up in arteries in the legs. of patients who received IVUS and 70.1%

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How to Prevent Peripheral Artery Disease

AMS Cardiology

However, when these arteries become narrowed or blocked conditions like Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) can emerge, posing a threat to our overall health. Understanding Peripheral Artery Disease Peripheral artery disease or PAD is a condition in which plaque builds up in the arteries that lead to the legs and feet.

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FDA Approves Abbott's Novel Dissolvable Stent Therapy for Peripheral Artery Disease

HCPLive

Abbott's Esprit BTK System was shown to significantly reduce risk of ischemic events in patients with PAD versus angioplasty over 1 year.

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Injectable Angioplasty Balloon Catheter Transforms Peripheral Procedures, Users Report Reduced Equipment and Contrast Needs

DAIC

(Photo: Business Wire milla1cf Thu, 01/18/2024 - 14:05 January 18, 2024 — Summa Therapeutics, LLC announced that the first-in-man injectable angioplasty procedures for patients with below-knee peripheral arterial disease (PAD) were performed successfully using its Finesse Injectable balloon catheter platform.

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Devices Flop for Severe PAD; CPR on LVAD Patients; Cancer Drugs for Heart Disease?

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- For patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) and chronic limb-threatening ischemia, drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons did not improve amputation-free survival compared with balloon angioplasty alone in the BASIL.

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Outpatient vascular care : Good, bad or ugly?

Dr. Anish Koka

Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. Dr. Dormu also performed a mechanical atherectomy of all three tibial vessels.

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Rise of the Lysenkoist Cardiologists

Dr. Anish Koka

years of age, P <0.001), cerebral or peripheral artery disease (6.2% Women also had more cardiovascular risk factors, including hypertension (66.6% versus 63.2%; P <0.001), hyperlipidemia (68.9% versus 66.3%; P =0.004), older age (62.4±7.9 years of age versus 59.0±8.4 versus 43.4%; P <0.001).