Markedly eccentric peripheral vascular stenoses: percutaneous atherectomy with an endomyocardial biopsy device
M Bulvas1, R Urbanová, R Klézlová
1Department of Medicine 2, Division of Angiology, King's Vineyards Hospital, School of Medicine 3, Charles University, Srobarova 50, Prague 10, CZ 101 00, Czech Republic. mbulv@lf1.cuni.cz
Radiology
|November 4, 2000
Abstract:
In 23 patients, percutaneous atherectomy was performed with an endomyocardial biopsy device in 27 eccentric stenoses of lower limb arteries. The mean percentage stenosis was reduced from 82% to 14% (P: <.001). Histopathologic examination revealed no media or adventitial tissue in the extracted particles. The technical success and complication rates were similar to those reported for conventional percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of short symmetric lesions.


