Reporting Peripheral Artery Disease in Claudicants: Lessons Learned From the TASC-Ability Study.

Background: The Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus Document (TASC II) aims to comprehensively describe the case scenarios of aortoiliac and femoropopliteal lesions to suggest an endovascular or a surgical approach. Over time, it has become a guide for describing the gravity of arterial lesions.

Purpose: To assess the revised TASC II system for classifying arterial lesions in a large database of patients presenting with claudication.

Paclitaxel and mortality in patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions: a historical cohort study.

Objective: To compare the mortality rates of patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions treated with and without paclitaxel coated devices (PCD).

Background: A recent meta-analysis, mostly including patients with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions but also with recurrent stenoses and critical limb ischemia, has shown a significant excess mortality in patients treated with PCD.

Methods: Comparison of two historical cohorts of patients presenting with claudication and de novo femoropopliteal lesions treated with and without PCD between 2008 and 2018.