Publication: Initial Experience of Complex Peripheral Bypass Surgery at Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital
Date
2017
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Publisher
Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Peripheral arterial disease is seemingly silent yet is a major pubic health problem
with limb threatening and life threatening consequences. This condition can initially
be asymptomatic and gradually may progress to intermittent claudication and
finally to critical ischemia. When conservative management is not sufficient and
there is option of surgical management, peripheral bypass surgery is an established
modality of treatment of peripheral arterial disease. We present our initial cases of
peripheral arterial bypass surgery all of which are technically demanding surgeries.
All the cases have resulted into limb salvage until current follow-up.
KEY WORDS
Claudication, critical ischemia, peripheral arterial bypass, peripheral arterial disease
Description
Karmacharya RM,1 Shrestha B,1 Devbhandari M,1 Tuladhar SM,1 Hodde A,2 Thermann F3
1Department of Surgery (CTVS),
Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University
Dhulikhel, Nepal
2Department of Vascular Surgery,
University Medical Center, Groningen, Holland
3Department of Vascular Surgery,
Carl von Basedow Klinikum, Merseberg, Germany
Keywords
Claudication, critical ischemia, peripheral arterial bypass, peripheral arterial disease