In a study comparing multiplanar venography to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) for diagnosing common or external iliac and common femoral vein stenosis, IVUS imaging was found to change both the treatment plan in 60/100 patients and the number of stents placed in 50/100 patients. Presenter Paul Gagne (Darien, USA) maintained that “without IVUS, iliofemoral vein occlusive disease would have been undertreated in the majority of patients studied.
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