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Noninvasive Detection of Iliac Artery Disease and Prediction of Its Severity from Doppler Spectral Analysis in Common Femoral Artery

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

Atsushi Ohira, MD

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

Hirofumi Murakami, MD

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

Shigehiro Itoh, MD

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

Katsuhiko Hiramori, MD

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

Shinji Makita, MD

Second Department of Internal Medicine Iwate Medical University 19-1 Uchimaru Morioka 020, Japan

The direct interrogation of iliac artery disease (IAD) with color-coded duplex scanning is limited by the presence of intestinal gas or obesity. The purposes of this study were to examine the diagnostic accuracy of duplex ultrasound (DUS) analysis of spectral waves in common femoral artery (CFA) for detection of IAD and to predict its severity.

DUS and arteriography were performed in 107 lower extremities in this study. The following were calculated from the CFA spectral waves obtained by DUS: peak systolic velocity (PSV), acceleration (PSV/pulse rise time), and deceleration (PSV/pulse decay time). In patients with isolated IAD, the treadmill exercise test was also performed to evaluate the ischemic severity expressed as recovery rate of ankle pressure index five minutes after exercise (RR-API). Forty-six lower extremities with IAD and 61 without IAD were diagnosed by arteriography. PSV was significantly reduced in lower extremities with IAD (109.5 ±32.7 vs 59.8 ±32.9 cm/s, P<0.05). The deceleration detected IAD with a greater specificity and sensitivity vs acceleration (100.0 vs 82.0% and 97.8 vs 82.6%, respectively). Moreover, the acceleration and deceleration significantly corre lated with the RR-API (r=0.589, P<0.05 and r=0.779, P < 0.01, n=14, respectively).

The present evaluation is a simple and accurate technique to augment other exami nations for detection of IAD and to assess its ischemic severity.

Angiology, Vol. 48, No. 7, 615-621 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979704800708


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