Length and pressure matter: Expediting evidence-based progress in femoropoliteal intervention.

Preprocedural lesion length and ankle-brachial indices (ABI) synergistically predict 12-month patency and repeat revacularization in claudicants treated with bare metal nitinol stents for femoropopliteal disease. This predictive length-ABI model will permit broader evidence-based indirect comparisons of newer femoropopliteal approaches such as drug eluting balloon treatment with or without atherectomy. The length-ABI model is a step to supplement and supplant randomized controlled trials with indirect comparisons as the necessary evidence source expediting innovation and optimizing personalized endovascular therapy for infrainguinal obstructive peripheral arterial disease.