Volume 4, 2021

Ceazón T Edwards, Peter A Schneider, Cindy Huynh Abstract The role of paclitaxel in the treatment of femoropopliteal peripheral arterial disease is currently ambiguous. A summary-level meta-analysis of randomised trials published in 2018 demonstrated that paclitaxel-coated devices were associated with an increased all-cause mortality in those who underwent treatment at 2 years and 5 years. […]

Masayuki Mori, Atsushi Sakamoto, Rika Kawakam, Yu Sato, Hiroyuki Jinnouchi, Kenji Kawai, Anne Cornelissen, Renu Virmani, Aloke V Finn Abstract Drug-coated balloons (DCBs) have become an established therapy for the treatment of above-the-knee peripheral artery disease. The paclitaxel DCB has shown clinical benefit in terms of patency and freedom from re-intervention in multiple randomised trials.

Abstract Giant visceral aneurysms (or pseudoaneurysms) are aneurysmal lesions of the splanchnic vessels that are larger than 5 cm in diameter. As with other visceral aneurysms, treatment may be either surgical or endovascular. Both treatments face challenges given the anatomical complexity of such lesions. However, in the era of novel tools and techniques that have

Shawn Hobby, Maxwell Stroebel, Ricardo Yamada, Thor Johnson, Andre Uflacker, Christopher Hannegan, Marcelo Guimaraes Abstract Transradial access (TRA) via the left radial artery is an alternative to traditional transfemoral access for catheter-based procedures that is becoming increasingly more relevant in all types of arterial vascular interventions. First investigated in the realm of cardiology, TRA has