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Successful Subintimal Angioplasty for Leg Ischaemia Is Dependent on Length of Occlusion, Not Site of Lesion by J. R. Boyle; D. Perry; N. Gonem; A. R. Cowan; G. L. Sutton; R. M. Pemberton is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract ## Background The development of subintimal angioplasty offers an endovascular approach to the treatment of long occlusions not suitable for conventional transluminal angioplasty; it remains, however, the remit of relatively few radiologists in specialist centres. The authors have adopted the technique in view of promising published results. ## Methods Between May 1997 and July 2000, 50 patients had attempted subintimal angioplasty (median age 71 (interquartile range (i.q.r.) 61–80) years). Patients were divided into two groups by length of occlusion; 26 patients (group 1) had occlusions greater than 10 cm in length (iliac, one; superficial femory artery (SFA), 24; crural, one) and 24 patients (group 2) had occlusions of less than 10 cm (iliac, five; SFA, five; popliteal, nine; crural, five). The primary technical success rate, ankle: brachial pressure index (ABPI) before and after the procedure, complication rate and symptomatic improvement were recorded for both groups. ## Results The groups were well matched for age and indication for intervention. Primary technical success was significantly better for occlusions of less than 10 cm than for the longer lesions (83 ver

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Author

J. R. Boyle; D. Perry; N. Gonem; A. R. Cowan; G. L. Sutton; R. M. Pemberton

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)