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INTERVIEW DEEP VEIN ARTERIALIZATION: MUCH REMAINS TO BE LEARNED BUT USE POISED TO EXPAND IN PATIENTS WITH LESS SEVERE ISCHEMIA
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By Bryan Kay THESE REMAIN EARLY DAYS for transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins (TADV) in the setting of patients with severe chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI), says Daniel Clair, MD, one of the principal investigators in key clinical trials of the procedure, but the learning-curve process promises that “we are going to continue to see slow but not insignificant improvement in results” with the technique. “Even within all of the PROMISE trials, you’re talking about only 250 patients that have been assessed, published and looked at carefully,” says the professor and chair of the Department of Vascular Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. “There is still a lot to learn.” Late last year, Clair presented two-year outcomes from the prospective, multicenter, singlearm PROMISE II trial of the LimFlow system (Inari Medical) for TADV in so-called no-option CLTI patients at the 2024 edition of Vascular Interventional Advances (VIVA) in Las Vegas (Nov. 3–6), demonstrating sustained limb salvage and wound healing.
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