Successful intra-arterial alteplase infusion is a predictor of 12-month limb survival in patients with lower limb arterial occlusion

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 636-641

  Disini, L ^a   Wilson, P ^a   Cockburn, J F ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBOLECTOMY; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ANGIOGRAPHY; LEG ARTERY; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42749095633     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Ouriel K., Veith F.J., and Sasahara A.A. A comparison of recombinant urokinase with vascular surgery as initial treatment for acute arterial occlusion of the legs. Thrombolysis or Peripheral Arterial Surgery (TOPAS) Investigators. N Engl J Med 338 (1998) 1105-1111
2. Working Party on Thrombolysis in the Management of Limb I. Thrombolysis in the management of lower limb peripheral arterial occlusion-a consensus document. J Vasc Interv Radiol 14 (2003) S337-S349
3. Weaver F.A., Comerota A.J., Youngblood M., et al. Surgical revascularization versus thrombolysis for nonembolic lower extremity native artery occlusions: results of a prospective randomized trial. The STILE Investigators. Surgery versus thrombolysis for ischemia of the lower extremity. J Vasc Surg 24 (1996) 513-521 [discussion: 521-3]
4. Giannini D., and Balbarini A. Thrombolytic therapy in peripheral arterial disease. Curr Drug Targets Cardiovasc Haematol Disord 4 (2004) 249-258
5. Palfreyman S.J., Booth A., and Michaels J.A. A systematic review of intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for lower-limb ischaemia. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 19 (2000) 143-157
6. Ouriel K., Shortell C.K., DeWeese J.A., et al. A comparison of thrombolytic therapy with operative revascularization in the initial treatment of acute peripheral arterial ischemia. J Vasc Surg 19 (1994) 1021-1030
7. Ouriel K., and Kandarpa K. Safety of thrombolytic therapy with urokinase or recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for peripheral arterial occlusion: a comprehensive compilation of published work. J Endovasc Ther 11 (2004) 436-446
8. Diffin D.C., and Kandarpa K. Assessment of peripheral intraarterial thrombolysis versus surgical revascularization in acute lower-limb ischemia: a review of limb-salvage and mortality statistics. J Vasc Interv Radiol 7 (1996) 57-63
9. Earnshaw J.J., Whitman B., and Foy C. National Audit of Thrombolysis for Acute Leg Ischemia (NATALI): clinical factors associated with early outcome. J Vasc Surg 39 (2004) 1018-1025
10. Hanover T.M., Kalbaugh C.A., Gray B.H., et al. Safety and efficacy of reteplase for the treatment of acute arterial occlusion: complexity of underlying lesion predicts outcome. Ann Vasc Surg 19 (2005) 817-822
11. Ouriel K., Veith F.J., and Sasahara A.A. Thrombolysis or peripheral arterial surgery: phase I results. TOPAS Investigators. J Vasc Surg 23 (1996) 64-73 [discussion: 74-5]
12. Everitt B., and Palmer C. The encyclopaedic companion to medical statistics (2005), Oxford University Press, New York
13. Dormandy J.H.L., and Vig S. Acute limb ischemia. Semin Vasc Surg 12 (1999) 148-153
14. Valji K. Evolving strategies for thrombolytic therapy of peripheral vascular occlusion. J Vasc Interv Radiol 11 (2000) 411-420
15. Earnshaw J.J. Thrombolysis for acute leg ischaemia: 20 years and out?. In: Wyatt M.G., and Watkinson A.F. (Eds). Endovascular intervention: current controversies (2004), tfm Publishing Ltd, Shrewsbury 179-186