The British journal of surgery
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Review Meta Analysis
Systematic review and meta-analysis of additional technologies to enhance angioplasty for infrainguinal peripheral arterial occlusive disease.
There are several additional techniques designed to enhance conventional percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTA). This systematic review assessed current evidence on the clinical effectiveness of additional techniques for infrainguinal peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAD). ⋯ The conclusions of this review should be tempered by small sample sizes, lack of clinical outcome measures and differing outcome definitions, making direct comparison across trials difficult. However, self-expanding stents, drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons appeared to be the most promising technologies worthy of future study.