Duplex selection facilitates single point-of-service endovascular and surgical management of aortoiliac occlusive disease.

Full Abstract

We attempted to optimize management of aortoiliac occlusive disease by using duplex imaging to aid in selection of favorable lesions for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA)/stenting, by avoiding nontherapeutic arteriography, and by providing single point-of-service care in which endovascular and open surgical reconstruction were combined. One-hundred consecutive patients with symptomatic (91 claudication, 9 limb threat) inflow occlusive disease based on clinical examination and physiologic testing underwent physician-directed duplex scanning of the infrarenal aorta through the femoral bifurcation. Iliac lesions suited to endovascular intervention were defined as focal (length <5 CM), high-grade stenoses with a peak velocity >300 cm/sec and velocity ratio >2 by duplex and were differentiated from unfavorable (diffuse/long iliac stenosis, occlusions, aneurysms, femoral occlusive disease) inflow lesions. Patients with favorable iliac lesions according to duplex were considered candidates for PTA/stenting in an endo-capable operating room, without prior diagnostic angiography. On the basis of duplex imaging, 38 patients possessed endovascularly favorable iliac lesions, 58 patients had unfavorable aortoiliofemoral disease, and 4 obese patients had inadequate studies. Duplex interpretation correctly classified disease distribution/severity in 92% of 50 patients who subsequently underwent intraoperative or diagnostic arteriography. Thirty-one of the 45 (69%) total interventions performed in this patient group were based on duplex findings alone. Of 29 patients with favorable lesions by duplex scanning who had intervention, 25 (86%) received iliac PTA/stenting, while 4 patients required inflow surgical reconstruction for nonfocal iliac disease demonstrated on operative arteriography. Duplex imaging correctly identified the need for concomitant outflow reconstruction/bypass in 11 of the 25 (44%) patients treated by iliac PTA/stenting. Primary and assisted patency rates of iliac PTA/stenting were 83% and 100% at 24 months by life-table analysis. Duplex imaging in patients with symptomatic aortoiliac occlusive disease can provide sufficient information to permit endovascular and surgical intervention without formal diagnostic arteriography in most patients.

Author information

Author/s: Back, Martin R (MR); Bowser, Andrew N (AN); Schmacht, Dale C (DC); Johnson, Brad L (BL); Bandyk, Dennis F (DF);

Affiliation: Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, FL 33606, USA. mback(-atsign-)hsc.usf.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: Annals of vascular surgery (Ann Vasc Surg), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Sep; vol 16 (issue 5) : pp 566-74

Dates: Created 2002/11/26; Completed 2003/03/05; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12183774, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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