title: Arteriographic findings in diabetic and non-diabetic with critical limb ischemia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare angiographic findings of diabetic and non-diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia.
  
  
  METHODS
  We included 161 patients with infrainguinal critical limb ischemia (CLI). We evaluated the clinical and arteriographic (number and presence of opacification of leg arteries) of the two groups of patients. Statistical analysis was performed using EPI-INFO.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most patients were category 5 of Rutherford's Classification and had femoropopliteal disease. Seventy-two percent of non-diabetic and 67% of diabetic had opacification of the fibular artery (p = 0.25), this is the most present artery in both groups. Diabetic patients had less opacification of the posterior tibial artery in the univariate analysis (29% vs. 47%, p = 0.008). But only female sex showed a significant risk for the absence of the posterior tibial artery in logistic regression (OR = 2.6; p = 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The peroneal artery was the most frequently artery in angiograms of diabetic and non-diabetic patients with CLI. Diabetic and non-diabetic patients did not differ in angiographic findings of the leg.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Humanidades Artes e Ciências Professor Milton Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil. Electronic address: vansanbr@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Vanessa Prado dos
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Carlos Alberto Silveira
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: Cícero
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fidelis
authors.forename: José Siqueira de
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Araújo Filho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000592:standards; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007264:Inguinal Canal; D007511:Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D058729:Peripheral Arterial Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: Angiografia de subtração digital; Angiography digital subtraction; Aterosclerose; Atherosclerosis; Complicações do diabetes; Diabetes complications; Diabetes mellitus; Ischemia; Isquemia