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Filter by:Endovascular treatment of below the knee disease is a well-established therapy to improve outcomes in patients with critical limb ischemia. Several large cohort studies demonstrated the safety and the efficacy of percutaneous recanalization and angioplasty for distal vessel disease. A successful recanalization of foot artery was related to a higher ulcer healing and a reduction of major amputation. Moreover absence of revascularization in a patient with critical limb ischemia is an independent risk factor for mortality. Despite the introduction of new devices dedicated to below the knee vessel disease treatment, with the development of guides and conical balloons, long term patency outcomes are still poor. Restenosis was observed in more than two thirds of patients within 3 months after angioplasty of tibial arteries with a high target lesions revascularization. These re-interventions are characterized by a higher morbidity and mortality due to several comorbidities associated to these patients. These data confirm the need to obtain more lasting results in order to improve long-term outcomes of these patients. Recently, the use of drug-eluting balloons (DEB) has revealed an increase in patency after angioplasty of the femoral artery. On the contrary, results for BTK arteries angioplasty have shown controversial results. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and the efficacy of the Ranger™ SL paclitaxel coated balloon a model of drug eluting balloon in patients with critical limb ischemia.
Researchers are actively seeking a way to coat the inside of a synthetic graft so that it more closely resembles native vessels and therefore has low thrombogenicity and low incidence of stenosis. Using a biological coating comprised of autologous stromal cells derived from the patient's own adipose tissue is a logical solution. Considerable experimental evidence exists that such a coating is relatively non-thrombogenic and improves long-term graft patency. The Company's TGI Cell Isolation System (CIS) for isolating and concentrating adipose-derived stromal cells (ASC) can be used to fill the pressing medical need for small-diameter synthetic vascular grafts. The TGI CIS enables the user to prepare a stem cell-based biological coating from adipose tissue liposuctioned from the patient. The cells derived from the adipose tissue are then sodded onto the internal lumen of the vascular graft to improve long term patency.