Erschienen in:
08.03.2017 | Clinical Investigation
Intraprocedural Distal Embolization After Femoropopliteal Angioplasty: Is There a Role for Below-the-Knee Stents?
verfasst von:
Miltiadis Krokidis, Tariq Ali, Nicholas Hilliard, Nadeem Shaida, Andrew Winterbottom, Brendan Koo, Teik Choon See
Erschienen in:
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
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Ausgabe 8/2017
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Abstract
Purpose
Intraprocedural distal embolization is an accepted complication of femoropopliteal angioplasty. The purpose of this study is to assess the use of below-the-knee stents in the “bail-out” of conventional methods.
Materials and Methods
We retrospectively reviewed 1485 of femoropopliteal angioplasties that were performed in our centre in a 4-year period and analysed 12 cases (<1%) where distal embolization that required further intervention occurred. In all cases lesions were chronic and 75% suffered from critical limb ischaemia. The target vessel was the SFA in all of the cases with a long (>10 cm) occlusion in 50%. A three-vessel run-off was present in only 25%. Patients that received a stent as a limb salvage attempt were analysed. Outcome measures were technical success, clinical success and procedure-related complications. Multivariate regression analysis of the factors related to stenting was also performed.
Results
In 41% of the cases with distal embolization, recanalization with aspiration, thrombolysis or angioplasty offered a satisfactory result. In 59%, conventional methods were ineffective; a stent was deployed in 85%, whereas in 15% surgical embolectomy was required. Technical and clinical success of the stent cases was 100% without any procedure-related complications. There was significance (p < 0.05) between critical limb ischaemia and stenting; single-vessel run-off has also shown a positive trend (p = 0.88).
Conclusion
Stents appear as a valid salvage option for infragenicular distal embolization when conventional methods fail; the likelihood of having to use a stent is higher for patients with critical limb ischaemia and a single-vessel run-off.