Background: This retrospective comparative cohort study evaluated the clinical outcome of angiosome-guided endovascular arterial reconstructions in chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) due to multilevel peripheral artery disease (PAD).
Methods: Patients treated in an endovascular fashion for CLTI with tissue loss due to multilevel PAD were analyzed. Limbs were classified as having undergone either angiosome-guided (direct) revascularization (DR) or nonangiosomic (indirect) revascularization (IR).
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in patients with critical limb ischemia due to popliteal artery (PA) chronic total occlusions depending on the presence of a patent portion of the PA distal to the occlusive lesion-the distal landing zone (DLZ).
Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 80 patients with critical limb ischemia (all Rutherford class 5-6), who underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with or without stenting for PA chronic total occlusions with no inflow disease. Baseline demographic and clinical variables, periprocedural outcome, 12-month overall survival, limb salvage, primary patency, freedom from target lesion revascularization (TLR), amputation-free survival, and freedom from major adverse limb events in DLZ versus no-DLZ lesions were assessed.