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Drug-eluting stents in peripheral vascular disease: eliminating restenosis.

Transcatheter endovascular therapy for peripheral atherosclerotic disease has become more popular. In general, good results have been reported in focal aortoiliac disease. However, the long-term patency of angioplasty in longer, more distal lesions has been less satisfactory. Stenting has not been shown to improve long-term patency compared to angioplasty alone. Drug-eluting stents have shown promise in preventing coronary restenosis, and preliminary results in peripheral arterial disease are encouraging. This review article will discuss the current status of endovascular therapy of aortoiliac and femoropopliteal atherosclerotic disease, the theoretic and experimental basis for the use of drug-eluting stents, and the preliminary results in human studies.

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Impaired red cell deformability in peripheral vascular disease.

By means of a recently developed technique, red-cell deformability was measured in 44 patients with peripheral vascular disease and in 44 age and sex matched normal control subjects. 28 patients had intermittent claudication and 16 rest pain or gangrene. The ability of the red cells to deform was significantly reduced in patients and significantly less in patients with rest pain or gangrene than in those who only had intermittent claudication. A reduction in red-cell deformability by retarding blood-flow through the microcirculation may be an important factor in states of peripheral vascular insufficiency.

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