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Figure 1. Endovascular Stents for Iliac Arterial Disease.
The angiogram shown in Panel A was recorded in a 57-year-old man with no right femoral pulse; arrows indicate a 5-cm total occlusion of the right common iliac artery. The occlusion was crossed with a hydrophilic guidewire. An angiogram recorded after angioplasty (Panel B) shows a patent common iliac artery with extensive dissection. A final angiogram (Panel C) was recorded after the tandem insertion of two endovascular stents and shows that the artery is widely patent.
The non-expanded iliac stent (Johnson and Johnson, Piscataway, N.J.) is shown in Panel D, and the . . . [Full Text of this Article] |