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Area of Science:

  • Vascular Surgery
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Evidence-Based Medicine

Background:

  • Symptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD) significantly impacts patient quality of life.
  • Established treatments for PAD include angioplasty, stenting, exercise therapy, and bypass surgery.
  • Atherectomy offers an alternative by removing atheroma from within arteries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of atherectomy for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
  • To compare atherectomy outcomes against other established PAD treatments, including balloon angioplasty (BA) and stenting.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
  • Searched multiple databases up to August 2019 for relevant studies.
  • Included RCTs comparing atherectomy with other treatments in symptomatic PAD patients.

Main Results:

  • Seven studies with 527 participants were included; evidence quality was very low.
  • No clear differences found between atherectomy and BA (with or without stenting) for primary patency, mortality, or target vessel revascularization (TVR).
  • Atherectomy may reduce dissection and bailout stenting, but findings are uncertain due to high risk of bias and imprecision.

Conclusions:

  • Current evidence on atherectomy for PAD is of very low certainty.
  • No definitive conclusions can be drawn regarding its superiority over balloon angioplasty.
  • Larger, high-quality RCTs are necessary to determine the true efficacy and safety of atherectomy for PAD.