Multi-center feasibility study of microwave radiometry thermometry for non-invasive differential diagnosis of arterial disease in diabetic patients with suspected critical limb ischemia.

Aims: Diagnosis of vascular involvement in diabetic foot ulceration (DFU) remains challenging. We conducted a proof of concept study to investigate the feasibility of microwave radiometry (MWR) thermometry for non-invasive differential diagnosis of critical limb ischemia (CLI) in subjects with DFU.

Methods: This prospective, multi-center, study included 80 participants, divided into four groups (group N: normal control subjects; group DN: participants with diabetes and verified neuropathic ulcers without vascular involvement; group DC: participants with diabetes and CLI and group NDC: participants with CLI without diabetes).

Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Infrapopliteal Drug-Eluting Stent Placement for Critical Limb Ischemia in Diabetic Patients.

Purpose: To evaluate long-term clinical outcomes of infrapopliteal drug-eluting stent (DES) placement in insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed of all diabetic patients treated with infrapopliteal DES between January 2002 and September 2012. The study's primary outcome measures were patient survival and major amputation-free survival (AFS).

Endovenous ablation of incompetent truncal veins and their perforators with a new radiofrequency system. Mid-term outcomes.

This is a prospective trial investigating endovenous radiofrequency ablation with the EVRF system for the treatment of symptomatic varicose veins. Primary endpoints include one-year anatomical and clinical success and procedure-related complications. Secondary endpoints include adjunctive procedures and recanalization rates, periprocedural pain assessment, and time return to normal activities.

Distal macro- and microembolization during subintimal recanalization of femoropopliteal chronic total occlusions.

Purpose: To investigate the phenomenon of distal embolization during subintimal angioplasty with or without stenting of femoropopliteal chronic total occlusions (CTOs).

Methods: This prospective study included 40 consecutive patients (35 men; mean age 65.4±9.

Feasibility of endovascular recanalization of occluded infrapopliteal drug-eluting stents.

Purpose: To investigate the safety and feasibility of percutaneous endovascular recanalization of late total occlusions of infrapopliteal drug-eluting stents (DES).

Methods: A retrospective study investigated all 408 infrapopliteal stent procedures performed in 367 patients between January 2007 and October 2013 to identify those who underwent percutaneous reintervention for symptomatic infrapopliteal balloon-expandable DES occlusion. The search identified 49 patients with at least one infrapopliteal DES occlusion in 61 (14.