Infrapopliteal angioplasty was performed using percutaneous antegrade catheterization via the popliteal artery; this was done in a sixty-five-year-old patient suffering from lower limb ischemia, with an occluded superficial femo ral artery.
The purpose of the procedure was to improve the distal runoff, prior to femoropopliteal bypass surgery. The technique is fully described.
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