Peripheral artery disease
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients who have undergone endovascular peripheral intervention (EPI) using digital (subtraction) angiography or digital variance angiography (DVA) of the lower extremity (femoral, popliteal, cruro-pedal and iliac arteries) at the University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen (Bad Krozingen site).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients for whom DVA could not be performed due to motion artifacts in the image acquisition, no or partly utilized low dose protocols, or occasional CO2 acquisitions.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Significant reduction in radiation exposure in catheter-based EPI of lower extremities with DVA. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Increase in image quality of digital subtraction angiography (DSA) using DVA. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Department Universitäts-Herzzentrum