A novel scoring system for small artery disease and medial arterial calcification is strongly associated with major adverse limb events in patients with chronic limb …

R Ferraresi, A Ucci, A Pizzuto… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: To evaluate the roles of small artery disease (SAD) and medial arterial calcification
(MAC) in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) and to identify any …

Medial artery calcification in peripheral artery disease

TI Kim, RJ Guzman - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Medial artery calcification (MAC) is a distinct, highly regulated process that is often identified
in small and mid-sized arteries of the lower extremities. It is associated with advanced age …

Lower limb arterial calcification and its clinical relevance with peripheral arterial disease

Y Dong, Y Liu, P Cheng, H Liao, C Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Lower limb arterial calcification (LLAC) is associated with an increased risk of mortality and it
predicts poor outcomes after endovascular interventions in patients with peripheral artery …

[HTML][HTML] Pedal arterial calcification score is associated with the risk of major amputation in chronic limb-threatening ischemia

IH Liu, B Wu, V Krepkiy, R Ferraresi… - Journal of Vascular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The medial arterial calcification (MAC) score is a simple metric that describes the
burden of inframalleolar calcification using a plain foot radiograph. We hypothesized that a …

[HTML][HTML] Semiquantitative assessment of tibial artery calcification by computed tomography angiography and its ability to predict infrapopliteal angioplasty outcomes

IS Kang, W Lee, BW Choi, D Choi, MK Hong… - Journal of Vascular …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Tibial artery calcification (TAC) is associated with increased risk of amputation and
mortality in peripheral artery disease. We sought to investigate whether the severity of TAC …

Infrapopliteal anatomic severity and delayed wound healing in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia in the era of the global limb anatomic staging system

Y Hata, O Iida, M Takahara, M Asai… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: To investigate the prognostic impact of infrapopliteal (IP) artery anatomic severity
according to the Global Limb Anatomic Staging System (GLASS) on delayed wound healing …

The global limb anatomic staging system (GLASS) for CLTI: improving inter-observer agreement

JGJ Wijnand, D Zarkowsky, B Wu… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Objective: The 2020 Global Vascular Guidelines aim at improving decision making in
Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia (CLTI) by providing a framework for evidence-based …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of the technical success of endovascular therapy in patients with critical limb threatening ischaemia using the global limb anatomical staging …

T Tokuda, Y Oba, R Koshida, Y Suzuki… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to determine the clinical impact of the Global Limb Anatomical
Staging System (GLASS) and develop a model to determine the grade of difficulty for target …

Epidemiology of peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischemia

A Dua, CJ Lee - Techniques in vascular and interventional radiology, 2016 - Elsevier
With a rise in the aging popluation, the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is
markedly increasing. The overall disease prevalence of PAD is in the range of 3%-10 …

Infrapopliteal calcification patterns in critical limb ischemia: diagnostic, pathologic and therapeutic implications in the search for the endovascular holy grail.

JA Mustapha, LJ Diaz-Sandoval… - The Journal of …, 2017 - europepmc.org
Critical limb ischemia (CLI) represents the terminal stage of peripheral arterial disease
(PAD) and is characterized by multilevel and multivessel disease. Amongst patients with …