The FREEDOM Study: A Pilot Study Examining the Feasibility and Safety of Early Walking following Femoral Manual Compression after Endovascular Interventions Using 5F Sheath-Compatible Devices.

Background: Increasing prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) burning and pressure to reduce costs and promote patient empowerment make outpatient endovascular procedures an attractive alternative to conventional hospitalization. For outpatient peripheral endovascular procedures, femoral manual compression could replace the use of arterial closure devices for small-bore punctures. Presently, safety and feasibility evidence for femoral manual compression is still lacking.

Impact of Vascular Calcifications on Long Femoropopliteal Stenting Outcomes.

Background: Vascular calcifications (VCs) may be a prognostic factor for outcome after endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Semiquantitative analysis with X-ray imaging is the main limiting factor for assessing VCs. The aim of the present study was to find a correlation between the amount of VC with computed tomography (CT) scan quantification and midterm results of endovascular treatment of Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus C/D femoropopliteal (FP) lesions.

Comparison of Radiation Exposure during Endovascular Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease with Flat-Panel Detectors on Mobile C-arm versus Fixed Systems.

Background: Flat-panel detectors on mobile C-arm (MC-arm) systems are currently challenging fixed C-arm (FC-arm) systems used in hybrid operating rooms. MC-arm systems offer an alternative to FC-arm systems in the endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) but their efficiency has not been evaluated comparatively.

Methods: Two series of patients undergoing arteriography with intention to treat were included.

Bare Metal Versus Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents for Long Femoropopliteal Lesions: Prospective Cohorts Comparison Using a Propensity Score-Matched Analysis.

Background: The study aims to compare outcomes of primary stenting of long femoropopliteal (FP) lesions with bare metal stent (BMS) versus paclitaxel eluting stent (PES).

Methods: In a single centre study, we established 2 consecutive and prospective cohorts with TASC C/D FP de novo lesions. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were similar.

Management of ambulatory (day case) endovascular procedures for peripheral arterial disease.

Introduction: Thanks to exceptional improvements in technological developments and vascular teams' expertise, endovascular repair of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has drastically increased these past decades. Incidence of PAD rising, pressure to reduce costs and patient's empowerment make outpatient endovascular procedures for PAD an attractive alternative to conventional hospitalization. This review describes outpatient endovascular procedures for PAD in the literature.

Long-Term Outcomes of Common Femoral Artery Stenting.

Background: The purpose of this study was to report the 5-year outcome relative to endovascular repair of the common femoral artery (CFA) for occlusive disease.

Methods: Thirty-six consecutive patients (40 limbs) underwent stenting for CFA lesions. Patients were followed up systematically within a prospectively maintained database over 5 years.

The role for DCBs in the treatment of ISR.

Introduction: Currently, endovascular therapy is the standard of care for peripheral artery disease. The main issue of these techniques is restenosis which is a complex mechanism associating elastic recoil, constrictive remodelling and intimal hyperplasia. More and more evidence show that drug-coating balloon (DCB) is a promising device to prevent and to treat restenosis.

Bare metal stent versus paclitaxel eluting stent for intermediate length femoropopliteal arterial lesions (BATTLE trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Currently, endovascular treatment is indicated to treat femoropopliteal lesions ≤15 cm. However, the Achilles' heel of femoropopliteal endovascular repair remains restenosis. Paclitaxel eluting stents have shown promising results to prevent restenosis in femoropopliteal lesions compared to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.

Primary stenting of TASC C and D femoropopliteal lesions: results of the STELLA register at 30 months.

Background: The 1-year results of the prospective register STELLA suggested that primary stenting of long femoropopliteal (FP) lesions (≥15-cm) was a sure and effective treatment. However, the long-term results of this technique remain unknown.

Methods: STELLA is a prospective monocentric register of patients treated for FP lesions ≥15-cm (Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus [TASC] C and D) by direct stenting (Flexstar(®), Bard).

Clinical and economic evaluation of ambulatory endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive lesions.

Background: Ambulatory management of patients is an alternative to conventional hospitalization. In this study we evaluate the results of a prospective cohort study of patients receiving ambulatory endovascular treatment for peripheral arterial lesions.

Methods: From June 2008 to October 2010, ambulatory management was proposed for endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial lesions.

Long-term influence of suprarenal or infrarenal fixation on proximal neck dilatation and stentgraft migration after EVAR.

Background: We evaluated the influence of the proximal fixation systems of stentgrafts on proximal inter-renal or infrarenal aneurysm neck dilatation after endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Anatomic and clinical predictive factors of neck dilatation and stentgraft proximal migration were searched for.

Material And Methods: Taking account of a prospective and monocenter register, 58 patients' files, with a complete minimum 3-year follow-up, were analyzed after treatment with stentgrafts with a suprarenal fixation (SRF: 33 Talent) or an infrarenal fixation (IRF: 25 AneuRx).

Superior mesenteric artery dissection: case report.

Spontaneous dissections of the superior mesenteric artery are exceptional events because only 26 reports have been published. We present a new case, revealed with an acute abdominal syndrome. Computed tomographic angiography and arteriography allowed a rapid diagnosis and urgent surgical intervention.