Over a 5-year period, 452 patients with severe limb ischemia (rest pain, ulceration, gangrene) from infrainguinal disease were randomized to either a bypass surgery–first or a balloon angioplasty–first strategy. Perioperative (30-day) morbidity was higher with surgery; all-cause mortality ...
Most patients in the nonreflux group received coumadin or nonvitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs), and two of them underwent angioplasty for iliac vein lesions (Figure 3). Figure 3. Typical triggered angiography noncontrast enhanced (TRANCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation ...