Abstract
Below the knee (BTK) peripheral arterial disease often presents with critical limb ischemia (CLI) clinically with involvement of more than one tibial vessels. Drug eluting stent (DES) technology for treatment of BTK disease has shown promising long-term durable results; however, currently only coronary DESs are available for application in the United States. Although coronary bifurcation stenting techniques are backed by extensive data in literature, there is a scarcity of data for the treatment of tibial bifurcation disease. Bifurcation angles in the tibials are similar to those in the coronaries and therefore the same two stent bifurcation technique can be applied in BTK disease. Double Kiss crush (DK crush) stenting has superior outcomes when compared to provisional or culotte stenting in randomized coronary trials (based on Medina classification). We present a case of BTK CLI with tibial bifurcation chronic total occlusion treated with two stent DK crush technique using coronary DES.
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