Treating a severely calcified lesion1

Patient presentation
- 63-year-old male; current smoker with history of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia
- No previous treatment for peripheral artery disease (PAD)
Clinical challenges
- Rutherford Category 2 (moderate claudication)
- Severely calcified 80% stenosis in left common iliac

Procedure
VBX Stent Graft deployment with up and over access. Positioned at ostium, highly calcified artery.

Results
Post VBX Stent Graft deployment with contrast
Featured resources
- Bismuth J, Gray BH, Holden A, Metzger C, Panneton J; VBX FLEX Study Investigators. Pivotal study of a next-generation balloon-expandable stent-graft for treatment of iliac occlusive disease. Journal of Endovascular Therapy 2017;24(5):629-637. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1526602817720463