“…Thrombus injection method was first described by Maluenda et al [9]. In this report, this method was only applied to common femoral artery perforation.…”
“…Thrombus injection method was first described by Maluenda et al [9]. In this report, this method was only applied to common femoral artery perforation.…”
“…Furthermore, the latter method always requires ballooning of the artery to avoid embolic complications. 23 As explained, we strove for the use of ballooning as a bailout strategy only, to avoid any unpredictable and unnecessary risk of early and late complications. Some details of our technique are worth of more indepth explanation.…”
After a failed antegrade approach, the anterolateral retrograde puncture of the P3 or of the TPT is a valuable and safe technique to treat femoropopliteal CTOs in selected patients, regardless the distal spread of the lesion to the popliteal artery.
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