Iatrogenic tibial arteriovenous fistula after Fogarty balloon catheter graft thrombectomy

Abstract A 75‐year‐old male presented with an immediately threatened grade IIb acute ischemia of the left leg due to thrombosis of a femoro‐infrapopliteal prosthetic bypass graft. After an urgent Computed Tomography Angiography, an urgent graft thrombectomy was performed using a 5 Fr Fogarty cathete...

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Autores principales: Spyros Papadoulas, Konstantinos Moulakakis, Natasa Kouri, Francesk Mulita, Andreas Tsimpoukis, Charalampos Seretis, Panagiotis Kitrou, Konstantinos Katsanos, Stavros K. Kakkos
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Publicado: Wiley 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/eff732fa923e4bf59a1efec5cd47b4cd
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Sumario:Abstract A 75‐year‐old male presented with an immediately threatened grade IIb acute ischemia of the left leg due to thrombosis of a femoro‐infrapopliteal prosthetic bypass graft. After an urgent Computed Tomography Angiography, an urgent graft thrombectomy was performed using a 5 Fr Fogarty catheter, which had a troublesome distal passage, causing a tibial A‐V fistula.