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European Heart Journal 2007 28(7):798-805; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl545
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A call for uniform reporting standards in studies assessing endovascular treatment for chronic ischaemia of lower limb arteries

Nicolas Diehm1, Iris Baumgartner1,*, Michael Jaff2, Dai-Do Do1, Erich Minar3, Jürg Schmidli4, Curt Diehm5, Giancarlo Biamino6, Frank Vermassen7, Dierk Scheinert6, Marc R.H.M. van Sambeek8 and Martin Schillinger3

1 Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland
2 Section of Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
3 Department of Angiology, Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, Austria
4 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland
5 Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach, University of Heidelberg, Germany
6 Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology, University Hospital Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
7 Department of Vascular Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent Belgium
8 Department of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Received 10 August 2006; revised 14 December 2006; accepted 25 January 2007; online publish-ahead-of-print 22 February 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 31 632 4237; fax: +41 31 632 4793. E-mail address: iris.baumgartner{at}insel.ch

Endovascular therapy is a rapidly evolving field for the treatment of patients with peripheral arterial disease, and a magnitude of studies reporting on various modern revascularization concepts have been recently published. Thus, studies assessing the efficacy of endovascular therapy of peripheral arteries do not operate with uniformly defined endpoints, rendering a direct comparison of studies difficult. The purpose of this consensus statement is to highlight differences in the terminology used in the current literature and to propose some standardized criteria that must be considered when reporting results of endovascular revascularization for chronic ischaemia of lower limb arteries.

Key Words: Study endpoints • Clinical success • Functional outcome • Study guidelines • Peripheral arterial disease • Balloon angioplasty • Stent • Debulking


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