Cine-angiography during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the lower limbs.

In the treatment with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of 65 atheromatous stenosis of the lower limbs including 50 iliac and 15 femoro-popliteal lesions, the authors insist on the value of cine-angiography during the dilatation. Cine-angiography increases the security and the velocity of the examination. The anatomic data of this technic are as precise as those obtained with seriography and a special hemodynamic investigation is obtained with the direction of the flow of the contrast medium in the collateral branches and in the main artery. The cost is less expansive than with seriography.