Background: The use of prosthetic grafts in the treatment of intermittent claudication is still a controversy. Prosthetic bypass for this usually benign condition may in some cases lead to a graft ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endovascular therapy confers similar outcomes and lower complication rates vs. bypass surgery for ...

In patients with femoropopliteal artery disease, endovascular therapy produces fewer early complications, but surgery holds a longer-term edge in fewer amputations and better overall survival, ...

Most of the time, surgery is only done in cases of severe PAD. These are cases that involve intermittent claudication; open sores; or serious skin, bone, and tissue problems (gangrene). Bypass surgery ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A drug-eluting stent was safe and had a high patency rate in patients with femoropopliteal artery lesions, ...

Calcified femoropopliteal arterial disease remains a major challenge in endovascular therapy. Vessel preparation technologies have emerged to improve ...

All above-knee prosthetic femoropopliteal bypass operations for intermittent claudication done from January, 1990 to December, 2001 in one vascular unit were recorded prospectively in a database ...