Revascularization Strategies for Patients With Femoropopliteal Peripheral Artery Disease.

Background: No adequately powered studies exist to compare major clinical outcomes after endovascular therapy (EVT) with stent implantation vs bypass surgery (BSx) for symptomatic femoropopliteal peripheral artery disease.

Objectives: This study sought to perform a pooled analysis of individual patient data from all randomized controlled trials comparing EVT vs BSx.

Methods: Principal investigators of 5 of 6 available randomized controlled trials agreed to pool individual patient data.

Long-Term Results of Endovascular Treatment with Nitinol Stents for Femoropopliteal TASC II C and D Lesions.

: The feasibility of endovascular treatment (EVT) for Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II C and D femoropopliteal artery lesions has been described, but no prospective study has performed a long-term follow-up. The aim of this study was to report the long-term results of nitinol stents (NS) for the treatment of long femoropopliteal lesions. : A single-center prospective, randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing EVT with NS and vein bypass surgery was previously performed.

Early and Sustained Changes in Bone Metabolism After Severe Burn Injury.

Context: Severe burn injury causes a massive stress response, consecutively heightened serum levels of acute phase proteins, cortisol, and catecholamines with accompanying disturbance in calcium metabolism.

Objective: Evaluation of early and prolonged changes of serum bone turnover markers (BTMs) and regulators of bone metabolism.

Design: Longitudinal observational design.

Effects of a single bout of walking exercise on blood coagulation parameters in obese women.

Obesity is associated with increased prevalence of thromboembolic events. We aimed to investigate whether obese women might benefit from vigorous aerobic exercise. Forty-two overweight and obese women performed a 30-min walking exercise test (treadmill ergometer) at an intensity of 70% of individual peak oxygen uptake.