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TRANSLUMINAL BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY IN DIABETIC PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
Author(s) -
Burnett J. R.,
Walsh J. A.,
Howard P. R.,
Phillips P. J.,
Fon G. T.,
Dupont P. A.,
Foreman R. K.,
James M. J.,
Kneller P. N.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1987.tb01363.x
Subject(s) - medicine , balloon , angioplasty , peripheral , ankle , arterial disease , cardiology , surgery , bypass surgery , vascular disease , artery
Transluminal (balloon) angioplasty of iliac or superficial femoral stenoses in 18 diabetic patients resulted in a significant improvement in ankle/brachial systolic pressure index with marked symptomatic improvement in 16, little change in one and deterioration requiring arterial bypass surgery in one patient. Follow‐up for 12 months or more showed that the initial good results were sustained despite a downward drift in ankle pressures. These findings indicate that transluminal angioplasty has a useful place in the management of proximal atherosclerotic stenotic lesions in diabetic patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease.