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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · The Arab Journal of Interventional Radiology 2020; 4(02): 060-066
DOI: 10.4103/AJIR.AJIR_12_20
Review Article

How to Deal with Infrainguinal Arterial Calcifications: Atherectomy and Lithoplasty Devices

Dierk Vorwerk
Department of Radiology, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
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This overview article should describe current technical problems of severe infrainguinal calcifications, outline solutions for challenging and complex lesions and give an overview over currently available debulking devices which are meant to deal with calcified lesions. As a relatively new device, arterial lithoplasty is discussed.

infrainguinal calcifications - atherectomy - lithoplasty


Publication History

Received: 15 April 2020

Accepted: 18 April 2020

Article published online:
26 March 2021

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