Achieving conformability and durable results in tortuous anatomy1

Achieving conformability and durable results in tortuous anatomy

Patient presentation

  • 70-year-old male
  • History of smoking, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction
  • Rutherford Category 3

Clinical challenges

  • TASC II Type C lesion
  • Bilateral proximal common iliac lesion
  • Tortuous anatomy
Achieving conformability and durable results in tortuous anatomy

Procedure

Right: 10 mm x 39 mm
Left: 10 mm x 59 mm

VBX Stent Graft bilateral retrograde approach

VBX Stent Graft advances and conforms through tortuous anatomy and deploys in kissing stent configuration

Widely patent arteries demonstrating VBX Stent Graft flexibility and radial strength in a highly tortuous vessel

Results

Widely patent arteries demonstrating VBX Stent Graft flexibility and radial strength in a highly tortuous vessel

VBX Stent Graft flexibility and patency shown in discharge ultrasound

Results

VBX Stent Graft flexibility and patency shown in discharge ultrasound

  1. 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. 

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