Placement of closed-cell designed venous stents in a mixed cohort of patients with chronic venous outflow obstructions - short-term safety, patency, and clinical outcomes.

Background: To evaluate the performance of a closed-cell designed venous stent for the treatment of chronic ilio-femoral venous outflow obstruction (VOO) in the shortterm.

Patients And Methods: Safety, stent patency and clinical outcome after placement of the Vici Venous Stent® in patients with chronic ilio-femoral venous obstruction were assessed retrospectively. Stent patency was evaluated by duplex ultrasound scanning, and clinical outcome was determined using the revised Venous Clinical Severity score (rVCSS).