Adjunctive stenting of endograft limbs during endovascular treatment of infrarenal aortic and iliac aneurysms according to 3-projection completion angiography.

Purpose: To evaluate the role of 3-projection completion angiography in defining endograft limb stenosis after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) and to determine the role of adjunctive stenting in reducing the risk of endograft limb occlusion.

Methods: In our center, stent-graft limb dilation was routinely done after endograft deployment in patients with preoperatively identified severe iliac axis angulation to reduce the incidence of limb stenosis. Completion angiography was then routinely performed in anteroposterior (AP) and 45° right and left oblique projections to identify perioperative endograft limb stenosis after the stiff guidewires were removed.

Lipoprotein(a) and other serum lipid subfractions influencing primary patency after infrainguinal percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.

Purpose: To evaluate the influence of serum lipid subfraction concentrations on arterial patency after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in patients with infrainguinal peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD).

Methods: From January 2007 to June 2008, a prospective study was conducted involving 39 patients (29 men; mean age 68.6+/-10.

What's next after optimal infrapopliteal angioplasty? Clinical and ultrasonographic results of a prospective single-center study.

Purpose: To evaluate arterial patency and factors influencing outcomes after successful tibial artery angioplasty in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI).

Methods: From January 2005 to August 2007, a prospective single-center study was conducted involving 80 CLI patients (56 men; mean age 71.7+/-8.