title: [Percutaneous aspiration embolectomy of the popliteal artery].
abstract: Twenty-eight patients (17 women, 11 men, average age 67 years, range 40-85 years) with embolic occlusions of the popliteal arteries were treated by aspiration embolectomy. 6 patients were in clinical stage IIb and 22 in stage III. In 25 of the 28 patients the occlusion was treated successfully. Complications could be treated non-surgically at the same time. 2 of the patients died within the first week of cerebral emboli, 2 further patients suffered recurrent emboli in the treated extremity during the first month. 17 patients who were followed up for six months were free of recurrences.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Radiologie I, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern vom Hl. Kreuz, Wels, Austria.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lugmayr
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pachinger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Deutsch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D017128:Embolectomy / Q000379:methods*; D004617:Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D012008:Recurrence; D013396:Suction; D014463:Ultrasonography