Treating Peripheral Chronic Total Occlusions: Putting a New Device in Perspective

Abstract

The article “A Multinational, Single-Arm Pivotal Study Assessing the Performance of the SoundBite Crossing System for Peripheral Chronic Total Occlusions (The PROSPECTOR Study)” published in this month’s JVIR introduces a new device for the management of peripheral chronic total occlusions (CTOs) (1). The study is a multicenter single-arm trial investigating the technical success and safety of an active guide wire that delivers acoustic shock waves in crossing CTOs of the femoropopliteal segments, building upon a previously published feasibility study (2).