• M N D Di Minno, M Milone, A Russolillo, R Lupoli, A Di Minno, P Maietta, C Iacovazzo, G Salvatore, and F Milone.
• Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Regional Reference Centre for Coagulation Disorders, Federico II University, Naples, Italy. dario.diminno@hotmail.it
• Exp. Clin. Endocrinol. Diabetes. 2013 Feb 1; 121 (2): 91-3.

BackgroundPeripheral arterial disease (PAD) predicts cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ischemic events. PAD treatment is aimed at reducing clinical symptoms, local tissue loss and at preventing complications.AimsTo evaluated the effect of peridural analgesia on peripheral perfusion and pain control.MethodsIn 280 diabetic subjects with severe limb ischemia (65.7% males and 34.3% females, mean age 59.3±14.4 years) with a failure of medical treatment and contraindications to endovascular and/or surgical reperfusion, we performed a 30-day long peridural ropivacaine infusion, monitoring blood pressure, VAS and ABI periodically.ResultsDuring ropivacaine infusion VAS significantly decreased (from 4.06±0.343 to 1.96±0.413, p<0.001). Furthermore, in the 261 (93.2%) subjects achieving a VAS value ≤2 during infusion, the effect was maintained after infusion withdrawing. ABI significantly improved both during infusion (from 0.30±0.04 at baseline to 0.65±0.05 at T30, p<0.001) and after infusion withdrawing as compared with baseline values.Conclusions30-day peridural analgesia with ropivacaine is a valuable therapeutic option in severe peripheral limb ischemia subjects with contraindication to surgery and with pharmacological therapy failure.© J. A. Barth Verlag in Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.

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