title: Endovascular stents: a review of their use in peripheral arterial disease.
abstract: Technological advances in the past decade have shifted revascularization strategies from traditional open surgical approaches toward lower-morbidity percutaneous endovascular treatments for patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The continuing advances in stent design, more than any other advances, have fueled the growth of catheter-based procedures by improving the safety, durability, and predictability of percutaneous revascularization. Although the 2007 TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) guidelines recommend endovascular therapy for type A and B aortoiliac and femoropopliteal lesions, recent developments in stent technology and increased experience of interventionists have suggested that a strategy of endovascular therapy first is appropriate in experienced hands for TASC type D lesions. The role of endovascular interventions is also expanding in the treatment of limb-threatening ischemia.
authors.affiliation: The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ochsner Medical Institutions, New Orleans, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Vinod S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Kudagi
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D058729:Peripheral Arterial Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016896:Treatment Outcome