Abstract
We read with great interest the article on routine stent implantation vs. plain balloon angioplasty in femoropopliteal artery obstructions by Kasapis et al. 1 The endpoints of interest in the present meta-analysis were immediate technical success, rate of target vessel revascularization (TVR) as well as restenosis rates. From our perspective, substantial heterogeneity of endpoint definitions in individual trials included in the present meta-analysis clearly hamper both the deduction of meaningful conclusions and the generalizability of results from the present meta-analysis.2–4 There were subtle but crucial differences among included individual studies regarding all …
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