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Femoral Popliteal Bypass Surgery - Johns Hopkins Medicine
There are 2 methods used to treat a blockage of the femoral arteries. Femoral popliteal bypass. The surgeon reaches the femoral artery through a large cut (incision) in the upper leg. A vein taken from another area in your leg is attached above and below the blockage. This is called a graft.
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Aortobifemoral Bypass Surgery: What It Is & Procedure Details
Aortobifemoral bypass surgery treats severe and symptomatic aortoiliac occlusive disease (plaque buildup in major arteries in your belly). A surgeon inserts a graft, which serves as a new route for blood flow. Your blood can avoid (bypass) the clogged parts of your arteries. This surgery improves blood flow to your legs.
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Femoral Popliteal Bypass - Stanford Health Care
Femoral popliteal (also called femoropopliteal or Fem-Pop) bypass surgery is a procedure used to treat femoral artery disease. It is performed to bypass the blocked portion of main artery in the leg using a piece of another blood vessel.
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Femoral popliteal bypass surgery - Penn Medicine
Femoral popliteal bypass surgery, or fem pop bypass, creates a new route for blood flow to your lower leg. During the leg bypass, your surgeon places a graft, a replacement for the damaged artery. The graft may be a tiny synthetic (human-made) tube.
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Femoral-Tibial Bypass Surgery - Kaiser Permanente
To bypass a narrowed or blocked artery, blood is redirected through a graft. The graft is either a healthy blood vessel that has been transplanted or a human-made material. This graft is sewn above and below the diseased artery so that blood flows through the graft and around the diseased part.
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Femorofemoral (Femoral-Femoral) Bypass Technique
Introduction Femoral-femoral bypass is a method of surgical revascularization used in the setting of unilateral common and/or external iliac artery occlusive disease. The technique is...
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PAD Treatment: What is Femoral Artery Bypass Surgery?
Femoral bypass surgeryrestores blood flow by creating a new route for blood to flow around the blockage.Arteries in your neck, legs and arms, called peripheral arteries, circulate oxygen-richblood throughout your body.
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Surgical Bypass - Society for Vascular Surgery
With the help of a natural or synthetic graft, a surgical bypass routes blood flow around an area of blockage caused by peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The surgery does not cure the disease or remove the blockage. Think of a surgical bypass as a road detour.
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Femoral bypass surgery - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Femoral bypass surgery is an operation to make a new route for the blood to flow through. The aims are to: When the femoral artery reaches the back of your knee it becomes the popliteal artery. This runs into the distal arteries below the calf and into the foot.
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FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS | Zollinger's Atlas of ... - McGraw Hill Medical
Unilateral claudication is the leading indication for femorofemoral bypass, but occasionally rest pain, ulceration and gangrene may be the indication especially in the presence of significant comorbidities in the elderly.