A 45-year-old male smoker presented with extensive non-healing ulcerations and an occluded right common femoral artery. His left forearm had contractures from a prior stroke. We describe a combined radial-tibial access revascularization strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We describe our experience in transradial recanalization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA), and we provide a stepwise approach accounting for the patient's height and optimizing the yield of currently available devices.
Methods And Results: Fifteen patients with simple SFA disease, including 4 patients with total SFA occlusions <15 cm, were selected for stand-alone transradial recanalization. A 6F, 125-cm multipurpose guiding catheter was used to cannulate the limb of interest and support device delivery.
A 57-year-old man with diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, and end-stage kidney disease came to the hospital because his arteriovenous fistula used for hemodialysis had clotted. His blood hemoglobin level was 12.8 g/dL (reference, 13.
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