title: [4 years' experience with a balloon-expandable endoprosthesis. Experimental and clinical application].
abstract: During a 4-year period of clinical application of the balloon-expandable Palmaz stent, a randomized trial comparing stent implantation and traditional balloon angioplasty of iliac arteries in arterial occlusive disease was started. The first long-term results, recorded after 2 years, indicate statistically significant differences in the complication rate (after stenting 2/62 and after angioplasty 5/69) and patency (greater than or equal to 70% of original lumen size upon stent implantation or balloon inflation: 95% after stenting and 72% after angioplasty). Clinical improvement after 2 years was 89% after stenting and 70% after angioplasty. Parallel to the clinical trials, experimental canine artery stenting was performed to evaluate differences in the long-term patency of stents exposed to restricted flow. Significant differences in neointimal healing were found between normally perfused stents and stents with artificially reduced flow: during the total observation period of 6 months the neointimal height was up to 200% higher in flow-restricted stents, while the histological composition of the neointima was the same as with normally perfused stents.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Radiodiagnostik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Kauffmann
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nöldge
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Roeren
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Landwehr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lackner
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D000818:Animals; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery; D015607:Stents
vernacular_title: Vier Jahre Erfahrung mit der ballonexpandierbaren Endoprothese. Experiment und klinische Anwendung.