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  • Use, Safety and Effectiveness of Subintimal Angioplasty and Re-Entry Devices for the Treatment of Femoropopliteal Chronic Total Occlusions: A Systematic Review of 87 Studies and 4,665 Patients

    • Posted: 03/03/2020
    • Author:

      Damianos G. Kokkinidis, Ioannis Katsaros, Anil Kumar Jonnalagadda, Seth J. Avner, Nikolaos Chaitidis, Christos Bakoyiannis, Amit Kakkar, Eric A. Secemsky, Jay S. Giri and Ehrin J. Armstrong

    • 2020CRM

    Highlights

    • In total 87 studies with 4,665 patient and 5,161 lesions were included
    • This is the first systematic review of this topic
    • SIA without RED is more commonly used (78.2%) compared to SIA with RED (21.8%)
    • The Outback device was the most commonly used RED in existing literature.
    • The overall complication rate was 9.1% with embolization being the most common complication.

    Abstract

    Background

    Subintimal angioplasty (SIA) is often utilized to cross femoropopliteal (FP) artery chronic total occlusions (CTOs). Re-entry devices (RED) can further assist with true lumen re-entry.

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