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26 ■ PIE DIABÉTICOfor healing of extensive, non-demarcated footulcerations. Concerning the adequacy of theconduit, the great saphenous vein is the mostused (fig. 4) and it provides the best long-termpatency and limb salvage rates (26).Figure 4. Control angiogram of a femoro-poplitealbelow-knee bypass.Other vein grafts, like small saphenousvein, spliced veins, upper limb veins and syntheticconduits like PTFE are alternatives withsignificantly worse results. Performance oftechnical adjuvants as the Miller or St.Mary’scuff to improve patency of synthetic grafts inthe absence of a suitable vein has been describedand seems associated with better limbsalvage rates (fig. 5).salvation rates close to 90% at one year andaround 75% at 5 yrs follow-up (4, 22). Howevera close surveillance program and aggressivere-intervention policy should be implementedto ensure clinical success (27).Endovascular Surgery: many authors nowconsider percutaneous transluminal angioplasty,with or without stenting to be the first lineapproach for CLI because clinical results aresimilar to open surgery and it potentially offersadvantages such as minimal access trauma, lowinfection rates and shorter hospitalization (7,28-29). New advances in the technology of endovasculardevices expanded even further thepossibilities of endovascular intervention. Dedicatedguidewires, catheters and sheaths tochronic total occlusions, lower profile ofballoons and better designed stents, drug-elutingballoons and stents, stentgrafts, etc openedthe possibility of successful treatment of calcifiedarteries and extensive occlusions, frequentlyobserved in diabetic patients, achievingacceptable patency rates compared to openbypass. Endovascular interventions can also betailored to each case, allowing revascularizationof targeted tibial and pedal arteries thatprovide flow to specific regions of the foot(angiossome theory) thus providing optimalflow for healing specific lesions (28, 30).Figure 5. A Miller’s cuff.The distal artery to act as receptor of abypass should be selected preferably in relationto its integrity and ability to provide directflow to the pedal arch or, in alternative,the one with a better collateralization <strong>net</strong>workto the foot.Primary patency rates for open surgeryin diabetic patients, although reduced in comparisonto nondiabetics, can provide limbFigure 6. Angioplasty of an extensive occlusion ofthe tibio-peroneal trunk.

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