In the past 5 years, with the introduction of new techniques and dedicated materials, endovascular recanalization of distal tibial and pedal vessels has become a valid alternative to inframalleolar bypass for limb salvage in patients with severe arterial occlusive disease, particularly diabetics. Revascularization of the foot is now often performed by using percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; over a 4-year period, the authors performed more than 2500 antegrade interventional procedures in patients with critical limb ischemia, diabetes, and infrainguinal arterial disease. Intraprocedural angiography of the foot is crucial for successful planning and guidance of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in tibial and pedal arteries, and its effective use requires both anatomic knowledge and technical skill. To select the best revascularization strategy and obtain optimal clinical results, interventional radiologists, cardiologists, and vascular surgeons performing below-the-knee endovascular procedures also must be familiar with the functional aspects of circulation in the foot. Supplemental material available at http://radiographics.rsna.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1148/rg.316115511/-/DC1.
ACDA is an accurate, safe, and effective technique that can be utilized to guide endovascular interventions in diabetics with CLI and baseline CKD ≥3. Larger multicenter randomized studies are needed to validate these results.
Iodixanol caused less frequent and severe discomfort, characterized as pain and heat during intra-arterial administration compared with Ioversol. The pain severity is tightly related to image and diagnosis quality with an impact on the patients for additional injections and larger CM volumes.
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