Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty for Below-the-Elbow Critical Hand Ischemia: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To perform a systematic review assessing the safety and efficacy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) for treatment of critical hand ischemia (CHI) due to below-the-elbow (BTE) obstructive arterial disease.

Materials and methods

MEDLINE and EMBASE systematic searches were performed from inception to December 2020 to identify studies assessing PTA for management of BTE obstructive arterial disease. Three independent reviewers performed abstract selection, data extraction, and quality assessment. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to assess individual study bias for non-randomized controlled trials.

Results

Eight studies comprising 176 patients with obstructive BTE vessel disease were included. All studies had a score >5 on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale,

SUBMITTER: Awad El-Karim G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9096593 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature