title: Profundaplasty as the only reconstructive procedure in patients with severe ischemia of the lower extremity.
abstract: Twenty-one profundaplasties were performed as the only reconstructive procedure. All of the patients had severe ischemia of the lower extremity with serious symptoms, such as rest pain or gangrene, or both. There was no postoperative mortality. Two patients had a crural amputation, and one patient, a femoral amputation performed during the first three months postoperatively. All of the other patients improved, and there was a significant rise in distal blood pressures after one week, further increasing after three months. At follow-up study, 15 of the patients had considerably less symptoms than preoperatively or were free of symptoms. There was a limb salvage rate of 83 per cent after 60 months. The operation is recommended whenever possible in patients with severe ischemia of the lower extremity when the possibilities of other reconstructive procedures are considered to be poor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aalborg, Denmark.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bille
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Nielsen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Egeblad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000601:surgery*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors