title: Percutaneous intervention for chronic total occlusion of the internal iliac artery for unrelenting buttock claudication.
abstract: Internal iliac artery stenosis or occlusion has been documented to cause hip pain, erectile dysfunction, and buttock claudication. Endovascular repair for patients with significant stenosis has been well documented, but chronic total occlusion revascularizations have not been reported in the literature. The reluctance to attempt percutaneous intervention may be in part due to the extensive collateralization that forms to this vessel, or fear of complications such as wire perforation in a vessel that has a tortuous route with multiple bifurcations. This report describes two cases of patients with unrelenting buttock claudication that completely resolved after percutaneous intervention of unilateral chronic total occlusions of the internal iliac artery.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43614, USA. adlakha@bex.net
authors.forename: Satjit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adlakha
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burket
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cooper
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000295:instrumentation; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D002081:Buttocks / Q000098:blood supply*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D015607:Stents; D016896:Treatment Outcome