Results of therapy of lower extremity ischemic disease by angiosurgery and radiointervention (PTA) methods

The aim of our work is to evaluate the results of therapy of lower extremity ischemic disease (LEID) in patients treated at 2nd Department of Surgery, St. Anne's Teaching Hospital, Brno, in 2000. According to the therapeutic approach, the patients were divided into two groups: 1. reconstructive angiosurgeries (95 patients), 2. PTA (42 interventions in 36 patients). The short-term follow-up (18 months) has given the following results: in the group of surgical interventions--the patency was 87.37%, in the PTA group it was 83.33%. There was a marked difference between the patency of PTA reconstructions in the region of pelvic arteries (100%) and that in the femoropopliteal region (58.83%). We have found out that in the solution of LEID, angiosurgeries and radiointerventions are equivalent methods and that they complement each other. (Tab. 2, Fig. 3, Ref. 10.).