İliak Arter ve Alt Ekstremite Periferik Arter Hastalıklarında Endovasküler Tedavi

Abstract

Objective: Methods of endovascular therapy have been increasingly used in addition to conventional surgical approaches in the treatment of peripheral arterial diseases. This study aims to evaluate to the endovascular treatment methods that we use in patients with peripheral arterial disease.
 Materials and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed twenty-four of patients were treated with endovascular method. Nineteen of the patients had intermittent claudication, 4 had rest pain and one patient with bilateral popliteal artery aneurysms had pain at the back of bilateral knee joints. Twenty patients were male and 4 were female. The mean age was was 55,26± 10,95( 38-81) years. Evaluations included clinical assesment according to Fontaine stages. Doppler examinations with ankle-brachial index (ABI) and bilateral lower extremity arteriograms. Ten of the patients who underwent endovascular therapy had a lesion in TASCII-A group, 5 had a TASCII-B lesion, and TASCII-C lesions were present in 9 patients. All patients were followed prospectively with arterial duplex scan.
 Results: Bioabsorbable stent was implanted in 11 patients. Balloon angioplasty was performed in 3 patients. A self-expandable nitinol stent was deployed in 3 patients. Subintimal balloon angioplasty was performed in 6 patients. An aneurysm repair was performed with stent graft in 1 patient who had bilateral popliteal and right anterior tibial artery aneurysms. Initial technical and hemodynamic success was achieved in 100% of cases. Preoperative 0,67±0,13 (0,4-0,95) and after one year later 0,94±0,07 (0,8-1) analysis for ABI revealed statistically significant (p