title: External iliac artery stenting: high incidence of concomitant revascularization procedures.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review immediate results, patency rates, hemodynamic success, and incidence of concomitant procedures with external iliac artery stenting (EIAS).
  
  
  METHODS
  Demographic features, category and clinical grade, Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus II classification lesion type, pre- and postprocedure ankle-brachial indices, and primary patency were compared between group 1 (EIAS without distal revascularization) and group 2 (EIAS with concomitant distal revascularization).
  
  
  RESULTS
  No mortality and a 100% immediate technical success rate was recorded in group 1 (n = 12) and group 2 (n = 24). Eleven patients (30.6%) also had stenting of the adjacent common iliac artery. Two thirds of group 2 patients required concomitant femoral or distal revascularization.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No difference in stent patency rates was found between patients in group 1 versus group 2. Patients requiring EIAS tend to have more diffuse arterial disease necessitating complicated open reconstruction and/or distal revascularization, as well as more proximal iliac stenting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery & The Ohio State Heart & Vascular Center, Division of Vascular Diseases & Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Vance L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: Jean E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Starr
authors.forename: Bhagwan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Satiani
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055109:Ankle Brachial Index; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D009820:Ohio; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015607:Stents; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014654:Vascular Patency