%0 Journal Article
%A Bernal Páez, Fernando Luis
%A Alcaraz Baños, Miguel
%A Felices Abad, Jose Manuel
%A Bernal Belmonte, Ana
%A Gijon-Nogueron, Gabriel
%A Pardo Rios, Manuel
%T Improvement of quality of life in diabetic patients treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.
%D 2018
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13071
%X 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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