Factors affecting primary patency of stenting for TransAtlantic Inter-Society (TASC II) type B, C, and D iliac occlusive disease.

Background And Objective: The purpose of our study was to evaluate 1- and 2-year results and the influence of risk factors on the outcome in the patients undergoing iliac artery stenting for TASC II type B, C, and D iliac lesions.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective nonrandomized study conducted between April 15, 2011, and April 15, 2013, 316 patients underwent angiography with a diagnosis of aortoiliac atherosclerotic disease. Of these, 62 iliac endovascular procedures (87 stents) were performed in 54 patients.

Recent advances in endovascular treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.

The rate of endovascular interventions for iliac occlusive lesions is continuously growing. The evolution of the technology supporting these therapeutic measures improves the results of these interventions. We performed a review of the literature to report and appreciate short- and long-term results of endovascular stenting of iliac artery occlusive lesions.

[Subintimal angioplasty: an alternative to open surgery of the lower limb chronic artery occlusion].

Based on recent literature data, subintimal arterial angioplasty, its indications and contraindications, methods and techniques, treatment results, and perspectives are introduced in this article. During the last two decades, with increasing human lifespan, more and more frequently a combination of progressive chronic lower limb ischemia, which is caused by occlusive disease, and severe condition occurs. In such cases, patients cannot be operated on.

[Subintimal angioplasty for superficial femoral artery occlusions: first experience in Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital].

Objective: To assess prospectively the first experience of subintimal angioplasty of superficial femoral artery occlusions.

Patients And Methods: Within a period of 36 months, 45 patients with 45 chronic occlusions in superficial femoral artery were treated at Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital.

Results: The technical success rate was 84.

[The influence of various factors on results of subintimal angioplasty of superficial femoral artery occlusions].

Objective: To evaluate prospectively the impact of various factors on subintimal angioplasty of superficial femoral artery.

Patients And Methods: Within a period of 36 months, 44 patients with 45 chronic occlusions in superficial femoral artery were examined. The influence of sex, age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, chronic ischemia stage, occlusion length and calcification, flush occlusion of the superficial femoral artery, ischemic cardiac disease, postprocedural medical treatment was evaluated.

[The surgical treatment of acute ischemia of the lower limb].

Objective: To analyze the surgical treatment strategy of lower limb acute ischemia and its results in the Department of Vascular Surgery of Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital in the period from 1999 to 2001.

Material And Methods: While collecting the data retrospectively there has been determined, that due to the acute ischemia of the limbs there have been operated 244 patients (12.2% of all treated arterial patients).