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Filter by:Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects more than 200 million people worldwide. Although over 50% are asymptomatic, it accounts for 4% of all amputations. The ischemic limb must be revascularized to help wound healing, reduce the pain of ischemia and preserve the limb's function. So, surgical and percutaneous revascularization choices must be considered in CLI. Classically, CLI revascularization aims to provide at least one patent vessel that delivers in-line flow to the foot. Today, the investigators live in a new era of angioplasty evolving and substituting open vascular surgery, so expanding research on endovascular strategy has been noticed.This confirms the profound impact of angioplasty in vascular surgery as one of the fastest-growing branches of medicine Infrapopliteal artery occlusive disease (IPOD) is a significant cause of critical limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI). The worldwide prevalence of IPOD is between 4.5% and 29%, and most patients live in low-income countries. The angiosomal concept was derived from plastic surgery for the skin flap. This concept delineates the human body into three-dimensional blocks of tissue from the skin to bone and also provides practical application of vascular anatomy for reconstructive surgery. An angiosome is an anatomic unit of tissue consisting of skin, subcutaneous, muscle, and bone fed by a source artery and drained by a specific vein. According to the angiosomal concept, the foot is divided into six distinct angiosomes fed by source arteries, three from the posterior tibial, two from the peroneal, and one from the anterior tibial artery, with functional artery-to-artery connections among muscle, fascia, and skin. Numerous direct inter-arterial connections occur between the foot's main arteries, which provide alternative pathways of blood flow when disruption or compromise affects the arteries that directly feed the angiosome. On the other hand, in patients with CLI, where only one vessel runoff can be established to the foot, direct flow into a patent pedal arch is essential to improve their clinical outcomes. Conventional Endovascular therapy aims to the re-establishment of pulsatile straight-line flow to the lower limb. This results in relieving ischemic pain, healing ulcers, achieving limb salvage, improving quality of life, and potentially prolonging survival. So it became essential to know the differential impact of both concepts on CLI revascularization.
The objective of this prospective, multi-center, clinical investigation is to evaluate the MAGNITUDE BRS System for the planned treatment of narrowed infrapopliteal lesions. Up to 30 subjects will be enrolled at approximately 3 clinical sites in Australia.
The study will examine the results of the use of biological materials (allogeneic arterial grafts, allogeneic venous graft, autologous vein, biological bovine decellularized graft) as a bypass grafts for reconstructive interventions in patients with critical lower limb ischemia due to atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease in the short-term and long-term postoperative periods. Histological analysis of allogeneic grafts will be carried out at various time points of graft preservation with a Roswell Park Memorial Institute 1640 cell medicum with 400mcg/ml gentamicin and 20mcg/ml fluconazole at a temperature of +4C. The physical properties of allogeneic grafts from postmortem donors (tensile and tear strength) will be evaluated at various conservation time periods (1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks, 6 weeks). Markers of endothelial dysfunction (IL-6, endothelin-1, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alfa, eNOS) will be evaluated in patients with critical ischemia who undergo bypass procedures with arterial and venous allografts at various time points (before surgery, 7 days, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year after).
Background: critical limb ischemia is one of the most challenging cases we face nowadays with high risk for amputation, retrograde trans-pedal angioplasty offers an alternative technique after failure of traditional ante-grade angioplasty. Patients and Methods: 96 patients underwent trans-pedal or trans-tibial retrograde angioplasty after failure of the traditional ante-grade angioplasty with the aid of US, 21-gauge needle and 0.018 wire through sheath-less approach as a last chance for revascularization
In the UK there are over 7,000 leg amputations each year because of diabetes. The most important cause of this is poor circulation. The detection of poor circulation in patients with diabetes is difficult. A number of tests exist to detect poor circulation (known as peripheral arterial disease (PAD)). However, there is confusion as to which is the gold standard. The DM PAD study aims to determine the diagnostic performance of index tests (audible handheld Doppler, visual handheld Doppler, ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI), exercise ABPI and toe brachial pressure index (TBPI)) for the diagnosis of PAD in patients with diabetes as determined by a reference test (CTA or MRA).
The peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has been associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Despite minimally invasive endovascular techniques, patients with critical limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) have a poor prognosis with a high mortality that is comparable that of cancer. The inflammatory activity has a crucial role for the development and prognosis of atherosclerosis. Recently, different inflammatory biomarkers such as the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and lymphocyte to monocyte ratio (LMR) have been associated with severity and prognosis in patients with PAD. Additionally, patients with CLTI present several independent risk factors for malnutrition. For this reason, malnutrition represents an independent risk factor for mortality and post-operative complications. In this context, the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) associates the nutritional and inflammatory status of patients. This study shows the clinical applicability of the different pre-operative nutritional and inflammatory biomarkers in patients with CLTI. This study does not collect any patient identifiable information.
Extensive arterial occlusion significantly reduces arterial perfusion, and may eventually lead to Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI). The pathology gives rise to symptoms such as ischemic pain, slow healing wounds at lower extremity and gangrene. It places patients with multi-segment occlusion at high risks of amputations and mortality. The treatment methods for such long occlusive lesions are limited. Traditionally, the standard of care would be surgical revascularization. This is because lesion length have been identified in several studies as an independent risk factor for the development of restenosis after angioplasty and/or stenting. However, thanks to recent advances in endovascular techniques, such as the utilization of subintimal technique for crossing long segment occlusions, it is now possible to employ endovascular techniques for suitable patients.The re-establishment of an in-line flow, even if only temporary, can allow tissue healing, which is vital in achieving limb salvage. In addition, the use of Drug Coated Balloons (DCB) can potentially reduce restenosis rate, as Sirolimus have an anti-proliferative effect. To date, there are few studies that have evaluated the performance of DCB in lesions that are longer than 10cm. The investigators hope to evaluate the performance of the Selution DCB when used in treatment of such lesions
The present randomized study proposed to compare the immediate postoperative and 2-year clinical outcomes of long surgical bypass and hybrid approaches in patients with multilevel critical lower limb ischemia.
Non-randomized, multicenter, combined prospective and retrospective cohort analysis consisting of a single arm treated with the MicroStent™ System.
To evaluate the safety and performance of the Sundance™ DCB in subjects with occlusive disease of the infrapopliteal arteries.