“…By evaluating 44 patients, we were able to demonstrate an improvement (Table 3) of our primary results up to 82.9% by this technique. 30 The catheter lysis is mainly complicated by peripheral embolization and bleeding at puncture sites (Table 4). Usually, small emboli in the lower leg arteries are not accompanied by clinical symptoms, because the overall blood supply of an extremity was improved significantly after successful recanalization of the femoropopliteal artery.…”