Long-term effects of endovascular angioplasty on orthostatic vasocutaneous autoregulation in patients with peripheral atherosclerosis

Husmann, Marc J; Barton, Matthias; Jacomella, Vincenzo; Silvestro, Antonio; Amann-Vesti, Beatrice R (2006). Long-term effects of endovascular angioplasty on orthostatic vasocutaneous autoregulation in patients with peripheral atherosclerosis. Journal of vascular surgery, 44(5), pp. 993-7. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.06.038

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OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that endovascular revascularization of femoropopliteal lesions improves the impaired venoarteriolar response (VAR) in patients with atherosclerosis. METHODS: We prospectively compared VARs in 15 healthy controls (18 legs) and 14 patients (17 legs) with mild to moderate peripheral arterial disease before and after successful peripheral endovascular angioplasty of femoropopliteal lesions. In all subjects, foot skin blood flow was assessed by laser Doppler flowmetry in the horizontal (HBF) and sitting (SBF) positions. VAR was calculated as (HBF - SBF)/HBF x 100. RESULTS: In patients with peripheral arterial disease, mean HBF (in arbitrary units [AU]; mean +/- SD) was similar before (25.6 +/- 15.3 AU) and after (27.0 +/- 16.4 AU) angioplasty (P = .67), whereas SBF was significantly lower after than before the endovascular procedure (11.6 +/- 7.7 AU to 18.4 +/- 14.1 AU; P < .05). Intragroup differences between SBF and HBF were significant before and after angioplasty (P < .001). VAR was higher after angioplasty (55.1% +/- 21.2%) compared with VAR before intervention (33.4% +/- 20.2%; P = .015). Although VAR increased after the intervention, VAR was still lower than in healthy controls (68.4% +/- 20.5%; P = .025). During the 6 months of follow-up, the ankle-brachial index and VAR remained unchanged (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS: Patients with mild to moderate peripheral arterial disease have an impaired orthostatic autoregulation that improves after successful endovascular revascularization of femoropopliteal obstructive lesions. The effect on VAR is sustained in the absence of restenosis.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Cardiovascular Disorders (DHGE) > Clinic of Angiology
UniBE Contributor:	Husmann, Marc, Jacomella, Vincenzo, Silvestro, A
ISSN:	0741-5214
ISBN:	17098532
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:45
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:14
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.jvs.2006.06.038
PubMed ID:	17098532
Web of Science ID:	000241714300021
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/18784 (FactScience: 1022)