What is it about?
By opening specific arteries responsible for the irrigation of the wound zone, healing process could be enhanced.
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Why is it important?
Targeted revascularisation may help patients to heal quicker ischemic ulcers, with less hospital stay.
Perspectives
Targeted revascularisation is technically not easy to achieve. Currently, the specific angiosome artery dedicated to the wound harbors the heaviest atherosclerotic occlusive and calcific disease. New, and more performant endo-luminal tools are needed (parallel to technological progresses) in order to achieve intentional recanalizations in most challenging chronic total occlusions.
MD, PhD, Vlad Adrian Alexandrescu
Consultant, University Hospital CHU Liège
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This page is a summary of: Primary infragenicular angioplasty for diabetic neuroischemic foot ulcers following the angiosome distribution: a new paradigm for the vascular interventionist?, Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, August 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/dmso.s23471.
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