Document Type
Original Article
Abstract
Background: Worldwide, an estimated 237 million people suffer from peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Coronary artery and cerebrovascular disease are two more cardiovascular diseases that are known to be related to PAD, which is a major cause of morbidity.
Aim and objectives: To assess the clinical results, wound healing speed, and amputation-free survival rates of patients with critical limb ischemia, pedal arch angioplasty's efficacy and function in limb salvage must be determined.
Patients and methods: Fifty patients participated in this prospective, randomized, controlled trial; each case was evaluated separately, and patients were randomly assigned to have infrapopliteal artery angioplasty or pedal artery angioplasty. Between August 2022 and August 2023, researchers from Cairo's Al-Azhar University Hospitals (Al-Hussein and Sayed Galal University Hospitals) and Kobri El Kobba Hospital carried out the study.
Results: Endovascular arterial revascularization is a first-line therapeutic option for high-risk populations. It helps save limbs and improves patients' quality of life.
Conclusion: Pedal-plantar arch angioplasty should be considered for patients who do not show adequate wound blushing during conventional above-ankle angioplasty. One or more tibial arteries extending to the pedal arch must be open for pedal arch angioplasty. Patients with chronic limb injury (CLI) can benefit from below-the-ankle angioplasty in several ways, including faster wound healing, limb salvage, and amputation-free survival rates.
Keywords
Pedal Arteries Angioplasty; Limb Salvage; Lower Limb Ischemia
Subject Area
Cardiovascular
How to Cite This Article
Abdelrahman, Mohamed Abdelhamid; Daha, Ahmed Saied; and Sayed, Ahmed Mohamed Ismail
(2024)
"Role of Pedal Arteries Angioplasty as a Limb Salvage in Patients with Critical Lower Limb Ischemia,"
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal: Vol. 5:
Iss.
11, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58675/2682-339X.2739