Popliteal artery angioplasty for chronic total occlusions with vs without distal landing zone

To evaluate the outcome of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) due to popliteal artery (PA) chronic total occlusion (CTO) depending on the presence of a patent portion of PA distal to the occlusive lesion – the distal landing zone (DLZ).

Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - May 15, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Pavel Kurianov, Alexandr Lipin, Alexey Antropov, Kirill Atmatzas, Anton Orlov, Alexey Borisov, Roman Sobolev, Yanis Eminov, Alisa Atmadzas, Arshed Kuchay Tags: Clinical Research, Basic Science Source Type: research