Endovascular treatment for long segment occlusion of femoral-popliteal artery by using retrograde puncture path / 介入放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To assess the value of endovascular management in treating long segment occlusion of femoral-popliteal artery by using retrograde puncture path.Methods The clinical data of a total of 46 patients with long segment occlusion of femoral-popliteal artery,who were admitted to authors' hospital during the period from June 2009 to January 2017 to receive endovascular treatment,were retrospectively analyzed.The patients included 27 males and 19 females,with a mean age of (69±8) years old.Grade Ⅲ of Rutherford classification was seen in 32 patients,grade ⅣV in 8 patients,and grade V in 6 patients.On CT angiography,the mean length of occluded lesion was (17±5) cm.Results In 46 patients of this series,the technical success rate was 100％.The average time used for making the small skin incision and puncturing the artery was (5.2±2.3) min.A 4-F artery sheath was employed in 7 patients,endovascular management with no use of artery sheath was carried out in 39 patients.The guide wire smoothly passed through the occluded segment of femoral-popliteal artery and entered the proximal true lumen in 41 patients.Subintimal arterial flossing with antegrade-retregrade intervention (SAFARI) technique was adopted to establish guide wire working track in 5 patients.On the third postoperative day,the ankle brachial index (ABI) was (0.71±0.12),which was significantly different from preoperative (0.33±0.11),and the difference was statistically significant (t=12.483,P＜0.001).The overall incidence of operation-related complications was 23.9％ (11/46),the incidence of distal arterial puncture-related complications was 4.3％ (2/46).No death occurred in perioperative period.Forty-three patients (93.5％) were followed up for 3-24 months.CTA reexamination performed at 3,6 and 12 months after treatment showed that the primary patency rate of the stent were 91.3％ (4/46),78.3％ (10/46) and 58.7％(19/46) respectively,and the one-year limb salvage rate was 95.7％ (44/46).Conclusion For the treatment of long segment occlusion of femoral-popliteal artery,endovascular management by using retrograde puncture path is technically simple and clinically safe and effective,this technique has certain clinical application value.