Part One: For the Motion. Lower Extremity Bypass versus Endovascular Therapy for Young Patients with Symptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease

Abstract

Intermittent claudication caused by infrainguinal arterial disease can mostly be treated conservatively. Yet, when functional capacity is threatened, claudication may need to be treated by revascularisation. This should not be done too hastily as any kind of revascularisation may be an onset of a vicious cycle of repeated interventions, whichmay accelerate the otherwise benign course of PAD.1 Furthermore, scientific evidence is lacking concerning the efficacy of endovascular therapy on claudication.2