Subintimal angioplasty of lengthy femorotibial total occlusion in Buerger's disease.

Purpose: To report successful subintimal angioplasty of a lengthy femorotibial occlusion in a patient with Buerger's disease, with wound healing and limb salvage.

Case Report: A 38-year-old female heavy smoker was referred to our hospital for treatment of extensive infectious tissue loss, with severe foot pain 1 month after early failure of a distal bypass graft. Angiography revealed total occlusion in the femoropopliteal and infrapopliteal arteries.