Research progress in drug-coated balloon or/and directional atherectomy in treatment of complex femoropopliteal artery lesions / 中国介入影像与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Complex femoropopliteal artery lesions (CFPAL) is a clinical difficulty. Dug-coated balloon (DCB) can carry the drug directly to the lesion site for release, so that the drug can accumulate at the target site in a high concentration and inhibit intimal hyperplasia. Directional atherectomy (DA) can make the drug carried by DCB penetrate into the vascular wall better by removing the vascular plaque, and improve the clinical therapeutic effect. The application advances of DCB or/and DA in treatment of CFPAL were reviewed in this paper.