Vascular Involvement in Diabetic Subjects with Ischemic Foot Ulcer: A New Morphologic Categorization of Disease Severity

Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg (BASIL) trial: A description of the severity and extent of disease using the Bollinger angiogram scoring method and the TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus II classification

“…Various angiographic and runoff scoring systems have been described, and each has different characteristics, strengths, weakness, and purposes. 1,5,7,[9][10][11][12]16 As discussed above, the purpose of the present study was to describe the angiographic patterns of disease in the BASIL cohort as a whole and in the two arms separately. The purpose was not to try to relate procedural (BSX or BAP) outcomes to the anatomic severity and extent of disease or, specifically runoff; those analyses are ongoing and will be the subject of a further separate report in due course.…”

“…5 Aim four is not the subject of the present article but is the subject of on-going further analysis using different methodologies and tools. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] The angiographic characteristics of the BASIL trial patients. When BASIL trial results are considered, it is very important to remember that BASIL is emphatically not a trial of all patients with SLI, of which patients with CLI defined by an ankle pressure Ͻ50 mm Hg are a subgroup, any more than other vascular randomized controlled trials have, for example, been a study of all aneurysms or all carotid artery disease or all claudicant patients.…”

Impact of renal insufficiency on clinical outcomes in patients with critical limb ischemia undergoing endovascular revascularization

“…20 However, in the present series, inflow angioplasty was required in a substantial subset of patients, indicating that endovascular therapy in CLI patients is not confined to infrageniculate angioplasty alone. 28 Within a recently published meta-analysis, Albers and colleagues analyzed published outcomes of 1314 surgical revascularization procedures performed in 1272 lower limbs of 1027 patients. In that series, 964 patients were dialysis dependent, 58 had a renal transplant, and five had RI not requiring dialysis.…”

Comparison of the effect of stem cell therapy and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty on diabetic foot disease in patients with critical limb ischemia

“…The severity of angiographic findings was assessed in all patients with the Graziani classification [24], and foot ulcers were classified in accordance with the University of Texas Diabetic Wound Classification System [25]. All patients were treated in our complex foot clinic during the follow-up.…”