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Article: Utility of excimer laser-assisted angioplasty reviewed.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 6, 2004
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2004 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The safety and efficacy of excimer laser-assisted angioplasty for critical limb ischemia (CLI) has been reviewed.
"Two decades after the clinical introduction of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), controversy still exists about the role of PTA for the treatment of occlusive disease in the femoropopliteal and infragenicular arteries," surgeons in the United States explained. For the CLI patient, "where diffuse disease and long occlusions are the rule, the results with PTA have not been optimal."
"Surgical revascularization has long been considered the gold standard for this patient population, but this ...