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PURPOSE: To examine the feasibility and utility of ultrasound-guided angioplasty for treating lower limb stenoses. METHODS: Duplex ultrasonography was employed to guide 55 balloon dilation procedures (27 iliac, 26 superficial femoral, 1 profunda, and 1 vein graft) with the help of a special ultrasound catheter (EchoMark). Ultrasound was used to determine balloon size, monitor guidewire passage, direct the dilation, and judge procedural success. Angiography was performed prior to the procedure to confirm preprocedural ultrasound findings and afterward to compare with duplex visual and hemodynamic parameters of success (peak systolic velocity ratio < 2.0). RESULTS: The balloon size determined from duplex measurements correlated in all cases with sizes selected based on the angiographic image. Guidewire visualization was possible in 95% of the cases. Angioplasty using ultrasound alone was feasible in 84%; inability to obtain a satisfactory image owing to vessel tortuosity, calcification, and bowel gas accounted for the failures. Against the duplex success criterion, initial completion angiograms had an accuracy of 76%, sensitivity of 76%, and specificity of 100%. The additional time for ultrasound guidance averaged 42 +/- 12 minutes for all cases. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that ultrasound guidance is feasible in routine clinical practice. In this series of well-selected cases of arterial stenoses, angioplasty was performed safely using ultrasound guidance alone in over 80% of the cases. Fluoroscopic monitoring is needed when ultrasound visualization is suboptimal.
Author(s): Stansby G; Ramaswami G; Al-Kutoubi A; Nicolaides AN; Dhanjil S; Vilkomerson D; Ferrara-Ryan M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Endovascular Surgery
Year: 1999
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Pages: 52-58
Print publication date: 01/02/1999
ISSN (print): 1074-6218
ISSN (electronic): 1526-6028
Publisher: Allen Press Inc.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1583/1074-6218(1999)006<0052:AOLLAS>2.0.CO;2
DOI: 10.1583/1074-6218(1999)006<0052:AOLLAS>2.0.CO;2
Notes: 1074-6218 Journal Article
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