Abstract
The absence of infra-popliteal runoff in patients with acute limb-threatening ischaemia due to thrombosed popliteal aneurysm entails a high risk of amputation. If sufficient runoff cannot be restored by thrombolysis of crural arteries or by thrombectomy, the only chance to salvage the limb is pedal bypass grafting. The authors present a clinical case of acute lower limb ischaemia in a patient with popliteal aneurysm thrombosis and occlusion of the crural arteries treated successfully with urgent pedal bypass grafting with distal anastomosis to the dorsal pedal artery.
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R. Staffa
R. Staffa, M.D., Ph.D. 2nd Department of Surgery St. Anne’s Teaching Hospital Brno Pekarská 53 656 91 Brno, Czech Republic Tel.: 00420 543 182 431 Fax: 00420 543 182 100 E-mail: [email protected]