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Crural Arterial Interventions

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Vascular Interventional Radiology

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8.6 Conclusion

Endovascular treatment of crural artery disease can be very valuable in the management of critical limb ischaemia. Although primary patency rates can at first seem disappointing, these should be ignored in favour of limb salvage rates, which are much more impressive. The PIER technique makes it possible to recanalise long, and often chronic, vessel occlusions to provide a temporary bypass. This allows resolution of the manifestations of critical limb ischaemia, such as ulceration, which will usually not recur, even if the vessel occludes.

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Reekers, J.A. (2007). Crural Arterial Interventions. In: Cowling, M.G. (eds) Vascular Interventional Radiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33255-8_8

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