Masaki H, Tateishi E, Matsubara H, Iwasaka T
Department of Internal Medicine II, Kansai Medical University.
Nihon Rinsho. 2001 Jan;59(1):141-6.
The prognosis for patients with chronic critical leg ischemic is often poor. The treatment of peripheral vascular disease, although greatly improved over recent decades by drug medication, surgical and minimally-invasive techniques, remains limited by vascular proliferative lesions and by our inability to modulate the progression of native disease. The therapeutic angiogenesis is now the most expected therapy for peripheral vascular diseases. This review explores some of concepts and methods of therapeutic angiogenesis including gene therapy using angiogenic growth factor such as VEGF and basic FGF and an implantation of bone marrow derived endothelial progenitor cells.
