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Improvement of quality of life in diabetic patients treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17568
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000012228
Full text access: http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13071

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2018

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To assess the quality of life (QoL) of treated patients in order to evaluate the success of peripheral transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and correlate physical parameters with clinical progress at 6 months post-PTA.According to TASC II classifications, 69 patients were selected for PTA. Clinical evaluation and diagnostic tests were performed before, after and after 6 months following PTA. The SF-36 QoL questionnaire was added as an additional parameter.Fifty one patients were included in the study. The ankle-brachial index (ABI) increased from 0.49 ± 0.11 before PTA, to 0.81 ± 0.14 after PTA (P 

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IBIMA-Plataforma BIONAND - Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga y Plataforma en Nanomedicina (Andalucía)

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