[Acute digital ischemia: a microsurgical emergency].
The authors are reporting their experience about the treatment of the acute finger ischemia concerning 14 patients. Twelve men and two women were concerned. The average age was 39 years old (18 to 65 years old). The acute finger ischemia was caused by emboli released by an ulnar aneurysm in nine cases and consecutive to an atrial fibrillation in five cases. The angiography was realized each time systemically in the emergency context. The medical or surgical etiological treatment was associated each time an emboli was found on the digital arteries. A microsurgical dissection of the digital collateral arteries permitted to perform a thrombectomy. The transversal arteriotomies were closed after collateral arteries were washed. The most proximal emboli were accessible to an extraction with a Fogarty's probe up to the superficial palmar arcade. An anticoagulant treatment was conducted in the early postoperative period. Considering this aggressive treatment, no secondary amputation was necessary up to today. The average follow-up was five years. This method has no indication for the chronic digital ischemias (diabetes, Buerger's disease) and for infectious or auto-immune arteriopathy.
Mortier
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Service de chirurgie plastique et reconstructrice, centre des brûlés, hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU, 59037 Lille, France.
Schoofs
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M
Leps
P
P
Houzé de l'Aulnoit
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S
Auvray
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G
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004617:Embolism / Q000150:complications*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005385:Fingers / Q000098:blood supply*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D018579:Patient Selection; D017131:Thrombectomy / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000925:Anticoagulants