Novel Treatment of Patients With Lower Extremity Ischemia: Use of Percutaneous Atherectomy in 579 Lesions

Abstract

This is the largest reported series with the longest follow-up showing the SilverHawk device as an effective endovascular therapy for patients with claudication and CLI with a low mortality, low complications rate, low amputation rate, and rare need for conversion to surgical bypass. The majority of reintervention was performed with endovascular techniques.