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FDA's summary calls it \"a single open label study\", and it had no randomized control arm.\n- Sample size: 54 patients in the extremity efficacy population, and 71 in the safety population.\n- Effect size at Day 30: 66.7% primary patency (36 of 54), meaning the graft was open without any intervention, and 72.2% secondary patency (39 of 54). FDA's limb salvage rate was 75.9% (41 of 54, 95% CI 63.1% to 85.4%).\n- Missing data: 13 of the 54 patients couldn't be evaluated for primary patency at Day 30 (amputation 5, death 4, intraoperative thrombus 2, lost to follow-up 2). Through 36 months, 37 of 54 (68.5%) couldn't be evaluated, 15 of them lost to follow-up.\n- Safety (n=71): 6 patients (8.5%) had graft infections, 4 (5.6%) had a failure at the joins and 3 (4.2%) had a rupture mid-graft, and FDA notes one death following bleeding. 8 of the 54 (14.8%) eventually lost the treated limb.\n\nWhy it matters: the approval rests on 30-day results from one uncontrolled study of 54 patients. Long-term durability is mostly unmeasured, since about two-thirds of patients couldn't be evaluated at 36 months. 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