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Raising the bar for appropriateness in the care of patients with peripheral artery disease

Advances in endovascular therapy have exponentially increased the number of procedures performed for peripheral artery disease, but public concerns of overuse have placed the vascular community under scrutiny. The appropriateness of care has thus become a focus of discussion within several professio...

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Autores principales: Ochoa Chaar, Cassius Iyad, Fereydooni, Arash, Lawrence, Peter F., Dardik, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31334415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvscit.2019.03.009
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Sumario:Advances in endovascular therapy have exponentially increased the number of procedures performed for peripheral artery disease, but public concerns of overuse have placed the vascular community under scrutiny. The appropriateness of care has thus become a focus of discussion within several professional societies, but literature on the topic is limited. This report presents two cases of patients with peripheral artery disease, one patient who did not need revascularization and underwent an intervention and the other who required additional intervention that was not recognized owing to an incomplete diagnostic workup.