Gray-scale median of the atherosclerotic plaque can predict success of lumen re-entry during subintimal femoral-popliteal angioplasty

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Natalie A MarksAlessandra Puggioni

Abstract

This study assessed whether the duplex ultrasound (DUS)-derived gray-scale median (GSM) of the most six distal portion of the occluded femoral-popliteal arterial segment can predict success of lumen re-entry for subintimal angioplasty. During the last 3 years, 108 patients (62% men) with a mean age of 73 +/- 10 years underwent 116 primary attempted DUS-guided subintimal angioplasties of the femoral-popliteal segment. Preprocedural B-mode DUS images of the plaque at the most distal occlusion segment were digitalized and normalized using Photoshop (Adobe, San Jose, Calif) software and standard criteria (gray level, 0 to 5 for lumen blood and 185 to 190 for the adventitia on a linear scale of 0 to 255). Overall GSM of the plaque segment about 2 cm long, immediately before the planned re-entry point to the true arterial lumen, was used for retrospective correlation with procedure success and other clinical indicators. Mean plaque GSM for all cases was 22.5 +/- 12.6 (range, 3 to 60). The overall success rate of subintimal angioplasty procedures was 85%. Mean plaque GSM for 99 successful cases (18.4 +/- 7.8) was significantly lower than for 17 cases (46.4 +/- 8.1) where we failed (P < .0001). We failed in 90% of 19 cases with GSM >35...Continue Reading

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