Endovascular Procedures For Lower Extremity Vascular Disease: Specifics of Endovascular Treatment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalithapriya Jayakumar ◽  
Mark Davies

The application of endovascular procedures to lower-extremity vascular disease is well established for many common vascular diseases and has often supplanted conventional open surgical approaches. Endovascular therapy for arterial disease in the lower extremity encompasses treatment of acute ischemia, chronic ischemia, and aneurysmal disease. The fundamental skill set and techniques employed are common to all these processes. This chapter details the management of chronic ischemia, acute lower-extremity arterial ischemia, pseudoaneurysms and aneurysms, and arteriovenous malformations. Key words: access closure, access complications, acute limb ischemia, aneurysm endovascular treatment, chronic limb ischemia, intravascular ultrasonography, lower-extremity angiogram, lower limb ischemia, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transcollateral access, transpopliteal access

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalithapriya Jayakumar ◽  
Mark Davies

The application of endovascular procedures to lower-extremity vascular disease is well established for many common vascular diseases and has often supplanted conventional open surgical approaches. Endovascular therapy for arterial disease in the lower extremity encompasses treatment of acute ischemia, chronic ischemia, and aneurysmal disease. The fundamental skill set and techniques employed are common to all these processes. This chapter details the management of chronic ischemia, acute lower-extremity arterial ischemia, pseudoaneurysms and aneurysms, and arteriovenous malformations. Key words: access closure, access complications, acute limb ischemia, aneurysm endovascular treatment, chronic limb ischemia, intravascular ultrasonography, lower-extremity angiogram, lower limb ischemia, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, transcollateral access, transpopliteal access


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalithapriya Jayakumar ◽  
Mark Davies

The application of endovascular procedures to lower-extremity vascular disease is well established for many common vascular diseases and has often supplanted conventional open surgical approaches. Endovascular therapy for arterial disease in the lower extremity encompasses treatment of acute ischemia, chronic ischemia, and aneurysmal disease. The fundamental skill set and techniques employed are common to all these processes. This chapter details these techniques and therapies. Key words: access closure, access complications, acute limb ischemia, chronic limb ischemia, intravascular ultrasonography, lower-extremity angiogram, transcollateral access, transpopliteal access


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lalithapriya Jayakumar ◽  
Mark Davies

The application of endovascular procedures to lower-extremity vascular disease is well established for many common vascular diseases and has often supplanted conventional open surgical approaches. Endovascular therapy for arterial disease in the lower extremity encompasses treatment of acute ischemia, chronic ischemia, and aneurysmal disease. The fundamental skill set and techniques employed are common to all these processes. This chapter details these techniques and therapies. Key words: access closure, access complications, acute limb ischemia, chronic limb ischemia, intravascular ultrasonography, lower-extremity angiogram, transcollateral access, transpopliteal access


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (05) ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sreekumar Madassery

AbstractEndovascular recanalization for patient with peripheral arterial disease and the end of its spectrum critical limb ischemia (CLI) has become a preferred method of revascularization due to advancement of techniques and equipment, allowing reduction of limb amputations while maintaining a minimally invasive approach compared to surgical approaches. Interventionalists have undertaken a progressively increasing complexity of diseased vessels in the hopes of providing inline unobstructed flow through occlusions for patients with claudication as well as direct flow to a nonhealing wound in patients with CLI. One of the major roadblocks encountered in lower extremity recanalization procedures is managing severely calcified chronic thrombotic occlusions which decrease luminal revascularization, ultimately increasing use of adjunctive interventions such as subintimal tracking, reentry device utilization, and stent placement. Understanding the histopathology and classification of lower extremity calcifications, imaging findings, and escalation of equipment use provides a thorough background in dealing with these specific cases.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Knowles

Few patient complaints offer such a large range of acuity and differential diagnoses as the complaint of leg pain. This is in part due to the multiple organ systems at play, including cardiac, pulmonary, musculoskeletal, neurologic, vascular, and dermatologic. The surgeon is frequently presented with the challenge of identifying and managing these complaints in a variety of settings. Management involves a spectrum from conservative care to surgical intervention where appropriate. The wide array of symptoms, signs, and often contradictory test results can be confusing and frustrating to patients and physicians alike, leading to delays and errors in diagnosis and ineffective management. This review offers a sequential and ordered approach to the evaluation of leg pain. Tables highlight atherosclerotic risk factors, vascular causes of lower extremity pain, the classification of acute limb ischemia, the ankle-brachial index and corresponding peripheral arterial disease, and the revised cardiac risk score for preoperative risk. Figures show bilateral lower extremity ischemia, chronic ischemic changes to the foot, classic dry gangrene, wet gangrene, acute limb ischemia, Charcot foot, segmental waveform and pulse volume recording analysis of the bilateral lower extremities, and angiographic evaluation of patients with aortoiliac and tibial disease. This review contains 10 figures, 5 tables, and 55 references.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. Davies

The application of endovascular procedures to lower extremity vascular disease is now established as the first-line intervention and has supplanted conventional open surgical approaches for most common vascular diseases. This new review details several common endovascular techniques and therapies used in the lower extremity arterial and venous systems by vascular surgery providers. The author's comprehensive approach to each procedure includes preprocedure “basics,” technical steps, adjunct therapies, troubleshooting, and postprocedure outcomes and considerations. There are three treatment algorithms, six figures, and 78 references in this chapter. As endovascular therapy for patients with lower extremity disease evolves, the algorithms for patient treatment are likely to evolve in concert.


VASA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Maxien ◽  
Barbara Behrends ◽  
Karla M. Eberhardt ◽  
Tobias Saam ◽  
Sven F. Thieme ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (18) ◽  
pp. 1081
Author(s):  
Aakash Sheth ◽  
Harsh Patel ◽  
Kirtenkumar Patel ◽  
Samarthkumar Thakkar ◽  
Krunalkumar Patel ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 028418512110069
Author(s):  
Talha Butt ◽  
Leena Lehti ◽  
Jan Apelqvist ◽  
Anders Gottsäter ◽  
Stefan Acosta

Background Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a more extensive distal arterial occlusive disease compared to non-diabetic patients. Diagnostic imaging is a necessity to identify the location and extent of the arterial occlusion in acute limb ischemia (ALI). Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the most commonly used modality and the diagnostic performance with CTA of calf arteries may be questioned. Purpose To evaluate diagnostic performance of CTA of calf arteries in ALI and to compare patients with and without DM. Material and Methods All thrombolytic treatments performed during 2001–2008 in patients with ALI were included. Initial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) and CTA of all patients were classified according to the Inter-Society Consensus for the Management of Peripheral Arterial Disease (TASC II) below-the-knee arteries and compared to CTA. Two raters assessed the CTA images independently. Inter-rater reliability was expressed as intraclass correlation (ICC) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results Patients with (n = 23) and without (n = 85) DM had lower ( P = 0.006) glomerular filtration rate. ICC between CTA and DSA was 0.33 (95% CI –0.22 to 0.56) and 0.71 (95% CI 0.38–0.68) in patients with and without DM, respectively. Sensitivity with CTA for TASC D lesions in patients with and without DM was 0.14 (95% CI –0.12 to 0.40) and 0.64 (95% CI 0.48–0.80), respectively. Conclusion The sensitivity of CTA for assessment of infra-popliteal TASC D lesions in patients with ALI was not acceptable in patients with DM in contrast to those without DM. Another imaging option at present times should be considered for patients with DM.


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