[Percutaneous therapy of obliterative disease of the femoropopliteal arteries using stents--2 years' experience].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the clinical results and short and mid-term stent patency in patients with femoropopliteal stent placement.


METHODS
Forty-one patients (42 limbs) underwent stent placement--27x into superficial femoral artery, 15x into popliteal artery. There were inserted 44 self-expandable stents. In 3 cases PTA of stents and in 2 cases local endovascular brachytherapy were performed because of restenosis. The mean follow-up is 12.9 months (1-24 months).


RESULTS
Stents were successfully inserted in all cases. Clinical improvement at the time of latest follow-up occurred in 77% of patients, no improvement in 13% and clinical worsement in 10% of patients. Primary patency rates at 6 months, 12 an 24 months were 83.8%, 67.7% and 67.7%, respectively. Primary assisted patency were 90.3% at 6 months, 77.4% at 12 months and 77.4% at 24 months.


CONCLUSIONS
Stents implantation in femoropopliteal arteries is a method of choice after suboptimal angioplasty results in patients with critical limb ischemia for whom no reasonable surgical alternative exists.
Lojík
M
M
Radiodiagnostická klinika, FN Hradec Králové.
Vodnanský
P
P
Krajina
A
A
Masková
J
J
Raupach
J
J
Fridrich
J
J
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon; D001162:Arteriosclerosis Obliterans / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011150:Popliteal Artery; D015607:Stents