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Arterial Restoration: more than just a pretty name

This patient is a 90 plus year old man who developed ever worsening claudication to the point he was disabled and more worryingly, had developed pain over his left heel. His ABI’s were severely diminished. CTA showed that he had an occluded SFA with above knee reconstitute, but also had only single vessel runoff to […]

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EndoRE PAD remote endarterectromy

Should the SFA be revascularized during an inflow procedure?

The patient is a 70 year old man who arrived with complaints of worsening claudication, worse on the left leg. He smokes over a pack a day. On exam, he only had femoral pulses, nothing was palpable below. PVR showed multilevel disease with an ABI of 0.42 on the left leg. CTA was done showing […]

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EndoRE PAD remote endarterectromy techniques

Removing Occluded Stents For Critical Limb Ischemia

The patient severe claudication and nocturnal rest pain and had undergone an inflow procedure at another hospital consisting of a common femoral endarterectomy and a single stent to the external iliac artery near its origin from the iliac bifurcation. He also had undergone a concurrent SFA atherectomy which closed and was treated with SFA stents […]

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Popliteal Endarterectomy and Short Bypass in Lieu of Multisegment Vein Bypass

The patient is a very pleasant elderly lady who had a prior EVAR complicated by graft limb thrombosis treated with thrombectomy. She recovered from that but subsequently developed ulceration of her left ankle. She had been sleeping in a chair because it hurt her to sleep flat –her leg and foot would burn with pain. […]