Non-invasive assessment of arterial stenoses in angioplasty surveillance: a comparison with angiography.

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OBJECTIVES: Comparison of non-invasive arterial measurements with angiography and their use for angioplasty surveillance. DESIGN: Prospective assessments of arterial stenoses in patients undergoing angioplasty in a 9 month surveillance period. MATERIALS: Fifty consecutive patients undergoing angioplasty. METHODS: (i) One hundred and thirty-one sets of clinical assessments, ankle brachial Doppler pressure indices and colour Duplex velocities and diameters were compared to time-matched angiographic diameter stenosis. (ii) Fifty patients undergoing femoropopliteal angioplasty (32 stenoses and 18 occlusions) were studied with ankle branchial Doppler pressure indices and colour Duplex and angiography during a 9 month surveillance period. RESULTS: (i) Symptoms, pulses, resting ABPI, and exercise ABPI showed no useful correlation with angiography. Duplex velocity ratio and Duplex diameters showed correlation and agreement with angiography respectively. (ii) On surveillance, restenosis was universal but not always clinically significant. Angioplasty caused a rapid improvement in ABPI and imaging studies which worsened at later times. ABPI did not predict clinical failure however, Duplex and angiography predicted all clinical failures. CONCLUSIONS: Restenosis should be assessed with imaging of the angioplasty site during angioplasty surveillance.

Author information

Author/s: Nyamekye, I (I); Sommerville, K (K); Raphael, M (M); Adiseshiah, M (M); Bishop, C (C);

Affiliation: U.C.L. Hospitals Vascular Unit, Middlesex Hospital, London, U.K.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg), published in ENGLAND. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1996-Nov; vol 12 (issue 4) : pp 471-81

Dates: Created 1997/01/14; Completed 1997/01/14; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 8980440, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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