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Multimodality Diagnosis of Mesenteric Ischemia
Published on: July 21, 2023
Endovascular versus open revascularization for chronic mesenteric ischemia: a comparative study
P Zerbib1, G Lebuffe, G Sergent-Baudson
1Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Transplantation, Hôpital Claude Huriez, CHRU de Lille, Lille Cedex, France. p-zerbib@chru-lille.fr
Background:
The aim of our study was to evaluate and compare short- and long-term outcomes of percutaneous angioplasty and open revascularization for chronic intestinal ischemia.
Materials And Methods:
Twenty-nine consecutive patients undergoing percutaneous angioplasty (n = 14) or open revascularization (n = 15) for chronic intestinal ischemia were prospectively studied from 2000 to 2006. All patients were symptomatic with at least thrombosis or 80% stenosis of superior mesenteric artery.
Results:
No patient was lost to follow-up. Patients were older in percutaneous angioplasty than in the open revascularization group (p = 0.0009). Open revascularization allowed to revascularize more vessels (1.4 versus 1, p = 0.01). There was no difference between groups regarding major complications, mortality, hospital length of stay, and symptomatic recurrence. Primary re-stenosis was only observed in three patients (21.4%) in the percutaneous angioplasty group. Survival at 2 years estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method was 58% in the percutaneous angioplasty group and 70% in the open revascularization group (p = NS).
Conclusion:
Percutaneous angioplasty should be preferentially offered to older patients and those unable to undergo open revascularization.