TY - JOUR
T1 - Incidence, diagnosis and treatment of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome in current vascular practice in Japan
AU - Fujimura, Naoki
AU - Hosokawa, Kyousuke
AU - Obara, Hideaki
AU - Igari, Kimihiro
AU - Akamatsu, Daijirou
AU - Matsumoto, Hidetoshi
AU - Asami, Atsunori
AU - Shibutani, Shintaro
AU - Akiyoshi, Takurin
AU - Nunokawa, Masao
AU - Harada, Hirohisa
AU - Inoue, Kyozo
AU - Koya, Atsuhiro
AU - Furuyama, Tadashi
AU - Sagara, Daisuke
AU - Shintani, Tsunehiro
AU - Yamaoka, Terutoshi
AU - Akiyama, Yoshinobu
AU - Inoue, Yoshinori
AU - Hoshina, Katsuyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Takuro Shirasu, MD, Department of Surgery, Asahi General Hospital, Toshifumi Kudo, MD, PhD, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Koichi Morisaki, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Daijirou Akamatsu, MD, PhD, Division of Vascular Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, Tatsuya Shimogawara, MD, Department of Vascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Keita Hayashi, MD, Department of Surgery, Hiratsuka City Hospital, Hiroshi Sasajima, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University Hospital, Keisuke Miyake, MD, PhD, Department of Vascular Surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Takashi Nakamura, MD, PhD, Department of Vascular Surgery, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Daisuke Fukui, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sinshu University Hospital, Hidemitsu Ogino, MD, Department of Surgery, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Naoki Unno, MD, PhD, Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Norio Uchida, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Mito Red Cross Hospital, Yasuhito Sekimoto, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical Center, Susumu Watada, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Togo Norimatsu, MD, Department of Vascular Surgery, Sakakibara Memorial Hospital, Takahiro Ohmine, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hirotoki Ohkubo, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Ryoichi Kyuragi, MD, PhD, Division of Vascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center, and Tsuyoshi Shibata, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, Peter F. Lawrence, MD, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, for their contribution to this study.
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© 2020, Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Few data regarding popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is available in Japan. In this study, we investigated incidence, diagnosis and treatment of PAES in current vascular practice. A retrospective analysis of all patients with PAES visiting 31 participating institutes between 2003 and 2015 was conducted. Thirty-five limbs (28 patients) were identified during the 13-year study period, and the incidence of PAES was 0.12% of all peripheral artery disease cases revascularized. Mean age was 32.0 ± 16.9 years old, and 60 and more years old was 10.7%. Also, 92.9% were male and 39.3% were athletes. Most frequent initial symptoms were intermittent claudication in 23 limbs (65.7%); 4 limbs (11.4%) had chronic limb-threatening ischemia. CT scan was most frequently (94.3%) used for the diagnostic imaging followed by MRI (45.7%) and duplex ultrasound (45.7%). Stress test such as dorsal flexion during duplex ultrasound was used only in 28.6%. Thirty-two limbs (91.4%) received surgical treatment, including 23 arterial reconstructions (71.9%); there were no major perioperative complications. All patients achieved improvement of their symptoms, and the average ankle brachial index increased from 0.69 ± 0.22 to 1.00 ± 0.14 post-surgery. The average postoperative follow-up period was 26.0 months with only one reintervention during the follow-up. In conclusion, PAES was a rare condition and traditional surgical treatment was solid. However, given a broad spectrum of clinical feature of PAES and less usage of diagnostic duplex ultrasound with stress test, there might be a miss- or delayed diagnosis of PAES even in the current vascular practice.
AB - Few data regarding popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is available in Japan. In this study, we investigated incidence, diagnosis and treatment of PAES in current vascular practice. A retrospective analysis of all patients with PAES visiting 31 participating institutes between 2003 and 2015 was conducted. Thirty-five limbs (28 patients) were identified during the 13-year study period, and the incidence of PAES was 0.12% of all peripheral artery disease cases revascularized. Mean age was 32.0 ± 16.9 years old, and 60 and more years old was 10.7%. Also, 92.9% were male and 39.3% were athletes. Most frequent initial symptoms were intermittent claudication in 23 limbs (65.7%); 4 limbs (11.4%) had chronic limb-threatening ischemia. CT scan was most frequently (94.3%) used for the diagnostic imaging followed by MRI (45.7%) and duplex ultrasound (45.7%). Stress test such as dorsal flexion during duplex ultrasound was used only in 28.6%. Thirty-two limbs (91.4%) received surgical treatment, including 23 arterial reconstructions (71.9%); there were no major perioperative complications. All patients achieved improvement of their symptoms, and the average ankle brachial index increased from 0.69 ± 0.22 to 1.00 ± 0.14 post-surgery. The average postoperative follow-up period was 26.0 months with only one reintervention during the follow-up. In conclusion, PAES was a rare condition and traditional surgical treatment was solid. However, given a broad spectrum of clinical feature of PAES and less usage of diagnostic duplex ultrasound with stress test, there might be a miss- or delayed diagnosis of PAES even in the current vascular practice.
KW - Diagnosis
KW - Peripheral arterial disease
KW - Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome
KW - Surgical reconstruction
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U2 - 10.1007/s12928-020-00710-1
DO - 10.1007/s12928-020-00710-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 32989708
AN - SCOPUS:85091687510
SN - 1868-4300
VL - 36
SP - 506
EP - 513
JO - Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics
JF - Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics
IS - 4
ER -