title: Endoluminal treatment of vascular occlusive disease.
abstract: The logical desire to avoid major cutaneous incisions and surgical dissection in the treatment of vascular occlusive disease has, in recent years, led to a surge of new therapeutic options whereby access to the diseased blood vessel is obtained via a distant site and treatment is effected from within the vessel. Such endoluminal treatment modalities include thrombolysis, balloon angioplasty, atherectomy, stenting, and stent grafting. For the purpose of this surgically oriented article, the latter two techniques are discussed.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wisselink
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Panetta
mesh_terms: D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D017073:Atherectomy; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral; D000075202:Contraindications; D004867:Equipment Design; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D015607:Stents / Q000639:trends; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials