A Single-Center Experience With Phoenix Atherectomy System in Patients With Moderate to Heavily Calcified Femoropopliteal Lesions
Highlights
- • Incidence of Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in lower extremities is about 50-100 per 100000 yearly
- • Endovascular intervention is necessary considering rate of amputation-free-survival for critical limb ischemia patients
- • Heavy calcifications represent an obstacle to drive balloon catheter distally resulting in failure of recanalization
- • Endovascular options to treat severe calcification of target lesion surely include atherectomy
- • Recanalisation with the Phoenix Atherectomy System is simple and safe, with a high technical success rate.
Abstract
Purpose
To evaluate efficacy and safety of a new rotational atherectomy (RA), the Phoenix Atherectomy™ System, for the treatment of de novo and re-stenotic or occlusions atherosclerotic moderate-heavily lesions of the femoro-popliteal axis.