[Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty. An efficient alternative in the treatment of peripheral obstructive arteriopathy]. / Angioplastia transluminal percutânea. Uma alternativa eficaz no tratamento da arteriopatia periférica obstrutiva.

At the present, patients with obstructive vascular disease in the lower extremities can be treated with percutaneous procedures without surgery. By what is called Interventional Radiology. Three patients with iliac or femoral arterial obstructions were treated with Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA). For all of them, claudication was the principal symptom and was treated with PTA due the failure of regular treatment. The dilatation was performed with high pressure balloon. Both technical and clinical results showed success and there were no complications.