Commentary: Resuscitation of endovascular brachytherapy owing to improved logistics

摘要

Technology and techniques for minimally invasive endovascular revascularization in patients with peripheral artery disease have rapidly evolved during the last decade, and there is a growing body of experience in the treatment of even complex cases. Endovascular approaches now represent the initial strategy for managing the majority of these mostly polymorbid and therefore high-risk patients.1 Different technologies, especially stent implantation to resolve the problems of residual stenosis, elastic recoil, and flow-limiting arterial dissection, enable optimization of the primary technical result. However, restenosis has remained, until now, the major drawback of all endovascular techniques.