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Published online before print September 27, 2002, 10.1148/radiol.2252011407
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Long-term Outcome of Patients with Claudication after Balloon Angioplasty of the Femoropopliteal Arteries1

Tiia S. Jämsén, MD, Hannu I. Manninen, MD, PhD, Pekka A. Jaakkola, MD, PhD and Pekka J. Matsi, MD, PhD

1 From the Departments of Clinical Radiology (T.S.J., H.I.M., P.J.M.) and Surgery (P.A.J.), Kuopio University Hospital, Puijonlaaksontie 2, 70200 Kuopio, Finland. From the 2001 RSNA scientific assembly. Received August 20, 2001; revision requested October 11; final revision received March 21, 2002; accepted April 29. Supported in part by Kuopio University Hospital (grant number 5063510), the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Pohjois-Savo Regional Fund, the Nycomed AS Foundation, the Radiological Society of Finland, the Finnish Society of Angiology, and the Foundation of Aarne and Aili Turunen. Address correspondence to T.S.J. (e-mail: tiia.jamsen@kuh.fi).



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  		Figure 1. Life table plot indicates primary and secondary patency rates in the study population (standard error of estimate <= 0.04 throughout follow-up).

 


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  		Figure 2. Life table plot indicates cumulative patient survival rates compared with those of the control population.

 


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  		Figure 3. Graph indicates differences in survival rates between various subpopulations and their age- and sex-matched control populations.

 




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