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Predicting Amputation using Local Circulating Mononuclear Progenitor Cells in Angioplasty-treated Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia
Published on: September 22, 2020
Techniques for the endovascular management of complications following lower limb percutaneous transluminal
V G Papavassiliou1, S R Walker, A Bolia
1Department of Vascular Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE2 7LX, U.K.
Objectives:
to determine the incidence of early complications following percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and to describe their management and outcome.
Materials:
five hundred and fifty consecutive patients undergoing angioplasty of 648 limbs, containing 1053 anatomical segments during a two year period were reviewed retrospectively.
Results:
early complications affected 109 segments (10%) in 92 limbs (14%) of 84 patients (15%). Of the 109 segments affected by early complications, 106 (97%) were managed by endovascular techniques with surgery being required on only three (3%) occasions. There were no deaths attributable to angioplasty.
Conclusions:
although early complications occur in 14% of limbs undergoing percutaneous transfemoral angioplasty, the majority (97%) can be managed by endovascular techniques.
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