Cultura

Comprehensive Study On General Medicine, Radiology, Laboratory Medicine, And Psychiatry

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Heba Abdulrahman Alshareef, Saleh Mohammed Alothman, Abdulrhman Ali Ibrahim Hakami, Abdulaziz Mohammed Abdulaziz Felemban, Mohammed Saleh Mohammed Al-Shehri, Abdulrhman saad salem Alqhtani, Raed Ibrahim Alrasheed
Mahmoud Makki Hassan Alrashed, Ahmed Hussain Mohammed Qaysi, Lujain Ibraheem Rasheed Alrasheed, Abdullah salem Hussein Alnakhli, Ghallab Refaei Hazim Almutairi, Ayman saleh ali alsendi, Sharif, Mousa Ali B, Abdullah Mesfer M Alghamdi

Abstract

Along with universally renowned technological advancements, accrued medical insight, and global achievements, the intricate and sophisticated systems at the core of modern day healthcare remain of the utmost importance to humanity. Comprising general medicine, radiology, and laboratory medicine, and with the aid of performing each independently, modern day healthcare ensures that accurate diagnosis, efficient treatment, and maximum outcomes for the patients remain a unity. More than other fields, modern-day healthcare has provided unprecedented advancements in patient care.

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Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty