Haemorrhage due to laceration of an aberrant inferior epigastric artery during femoropopliteal PTA in an obese patient; a rare complication of a high antegrade femoral puncture.
Haemorrhage due to laceration of the proximal inferior epigastric artery during femoro-popliteal PTA in an obese 79-year-old woman is reported as a rare complication of a high antegrade femoral puncture. The post procedural haemorrhage was caused by a high antegrade puncture lacerating a low overriding inferior epigastric artery.
Dept. of Radiology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg.
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D000368:Aged; D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D019074:Epigastric Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011150:Popliteal Artery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011859:Radiography; D012086:Reoperation