Abstract

A meta-analysis published in 2018 concluded that mid-term and long-term mortality was higher in patients treated with paclitaxel eluting balloons and stents than in those treated with bare devices after the endovascular treatment of femoropopliteal lesions. There are no national data concerning the safety of these devices. We designed the DETECT (Drug EluTing dEvices FrenCh safeTy survey) study in order to compare the risk of mortality in patients treated with paclitaxel eluting balloons and/or stents or with bare devices.

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