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Endovascular Treatment of Aortoiliac and Femoral Occlusive Disease | ||
Endovascular treatment of aortoiliac and femoral occlusive disease provides a minimally invasive, outpatient therapy for people with symptoms of hip/buttock and/or calf claudication. Recent introduction of covered stents offer exciting therapeutic possibilities in patients with severe stenoses or occlusions of their iliac arteries. In appropriate patients, the durability of some of these procedures is similar to those of open surgery. |
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With just local anesthesia and needle puncture, narrowed areas in the aortoiliac and femoral circulation are balloon dilated (angioplasty) with or without placement of stents. The procedures usually take less than an hour and, after a brief stay in the recovery room, patients may go home the same day. |
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