title: [Radiological diagnosis and treatment of acute limb ischemia].
abstract: Acute limb ischemia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, despite diagnostic and therapeutic advances. Threatened limbs require immediate imaging in order to determine the subsequent therapeutic procedures. Conventional angiography in the DSA technique still has advantages over CT and MR angiography. In acute arterial occlusions below the femoral bifurcation, endovascular treatment with intra-arterial local thrombolysis or percutaneous thrombectomy is an alternative to open vascular surgical procedures. The following article describes diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for acute limb threat induced by arterial occlusion.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Strahlendiagnostik, Klinikum der Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alfke
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Geks
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Wagner
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000792:Angiography; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D005121:Extremities / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D017131:Thrombectomy / Q000379:methods; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed