Endovascular Treatment of Aorto-iliac Occlusions

"Stenting of the Common and/or External Iliac Arteries was performed in the angiographic suite. Under local anesthesia, arterial access was obtained through standard percutaneous puncture of the common femoral artery, brachial approach, or simultaneous brachial and femoral approach.~Iliac lesion crossing was achieved through intraluminal or subintimal manner depending on the behavior of the lesion intraoperatively.~Predilatation of the occlusion before stent deployment was performed at the discretion of the operator.~Balloon-expandable stents were used for proximal, ostial lesions, whereas self-expanding stents were deployed in all other lesions.~Both stents were used in long lesions involving heavily calcified common iliac arteries."