Maria Pia Borrelli

Diagnostic Approach to Acute Limb Ischemia

Acute limb ischemia (ALI) is a serious medical emergency leading to high rate of complications, being not only limb but even life threatening, often despite early successful revascularization. The prognosis of this potentially devastating disease is mainly related to the rapidity and accuracy of diagnosis and treatment. However, timely recognition of signs and symptoms may be challenging, since clinical onset may range from sub-clinic and pauci-symptomatic to dramatic and irreversible ischemia.

Smoking Cessation and Clinical Outcomes in Young Patients Undergoing Endovascular Treatment for Critical Limb Ischemia

as initial indication for treatment who received BM stent were less likely to develop critical limb ischemia after stent occlusion (OR, 0.25; P 1⁄4 .016). Conclusions: Compared to BM stent use of CS in the treatment of advanced SFA and popliteal lesions is associated with higher primary patency rates. Patients are more likely to advance from claudication to critical limb ischemia after failure of a covered stent.