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Clinical Practice and FutureResearch  \nGeorge A.Antoniou,MD,PhD,MSc,FEBVS¹,²,Riza Ibrahim,FRCS²,NaseerAhmad,MD,FRCS³,and Francesco Torella,MD,FRCS'  \nKeywords  \narteries,critical limb ischemia,drug-eluting stents,endovascular treatment,infrapopliteal disease,peripheral artery disease,revascularization,surgery,tibial disease  \nO βios βpaxus,hδe téxvη μaxpn,óδè kaupòs óšus,斤δè πeipaoφalepn,斤δe kpiois xaλeπn.Life is short,the Art long;opportunity fleeting,experiment treacherous,judgmentdifficult.  \nThe aphorism of Hippocrates recognizes the challenges thatdoctors face through their practice ofthe Art of Medicine.'Itreflects the diachronic endeavor of practitioners of medicineto effectively treat the illness through the application ofknowledge,production of evidence,and utilization of humanvirtues,such as judgment and astuteness.Constant advancesand progress in modern medicine present unprecedentedchallenges with health decision making and research.Thetreatment of peripheral arterial disease(PAD)has seen dra-matic evolutionary changes over the past decade.Updates ofliterature,techniques,and practices by expert committeesare an essential tool to facilitate and guide clinical practice.  \nThe TASC Steering Committee,consisting of an interna-tional expert panel of specialists in vascular surgery,vascu-lar medicine,interventional radiology,and cardiovascularinterventions,in cooperation with and with input fromnational and international scientific societies,provide aconstructive update and synopsis of the available evidencerelated to new interventional treatments for lower limb PADand describe an anatomic classification of infrapoplitealarterial occlusive disease.²This document aims to comple-ment the previously published guideline,³in view of theemerging innovations in endovascular revascularizationstrategies.Both the literature update and anatomic classifi-cation tool provide a valuable guide for vascular specialistsfor the management of chronic lower limb ischemia andconstitute a framework for future clinical research in thisarea.However,they should be viewed within the context of  \ninherent weaknesses of the existing evidence and the con-tinuing evolution of therapeutic methods and health careservices for PAD.  \nThe authors are to be commended for highlighting the cru-cial role that local facilities and expertise should play in thechoice between open surgery and endovascular treatment.Rapid changes in diagnostic methods,endovascular tech-niques,and vascular services have resulted in a tremendousvariation in practice across the world.⁴5 Such a variationreflects the paucity of solid evidence,uncertainty about opti-mal management,and varying willingness of vascular spe-cialists to embrace and adopt evolving endovasculartechnologies.Even though the authors assume that endovas-cular intervention is being performed more commonly now(\"a rapid shift\"),such a paradigm shift does not represent thepractice.Forexample,in England,Hospital Episode Statisticsdata support the contrary:although percutaneous treatment isnow more common,the number of operations is growing at afaster rate than the number of angioplasties (Figure 1).  \nInvited commentaries published in the ournal of Endovascular Theropyreflect the opinions of the author(s)and do not necessarily representthe views of the Journal,the INTERNATIONAL SoCIETY OF ENDOVASCULARSPECIALISTS,or SAGE Publications Inc.  \nCorresponding Author:  \nGeorge A.Antoniou,8C Link,Royal Liverpool University Hospital,Prescot Street,L78XP,Liverpool,UK.Email:;antoniou.ga@hotmail.com  \nJournal of Endovascular Therapy2015,Vol.22(5)678680◎ The Author(s)2015Reprints and permissions:sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.navDOI:10.1177/1526602815596723www.jevt.orgSSAGE  \nFigure 1.Age-adjusted prevalence of lower limb revascularization procedures in England between 2003 and 2013 in patients aged 50to 84 years(courtesy of NHS England).  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