Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty(PTA) was introduced by Dotter and JudKins (1964), using coaxial catheters of increasing diameter. The remarkable advances in vascular catheter technology over the past several decades have permitted the
development.
But the application of the balloon catheters carries with it the risk of arterial injury, thrombosis, embolism, and loss of life or limb.
A 53-year-old man was admitted to other hospital due to a intermittent claudication in his right leg for 10 years. And PTA was performed at that hospital Thereafter he was transferred to our hospital because of coldness, pulselessness, rest pain,
ischemic ulcer, and progressing gangrene at the anterior aspect of left lower leg. The left lower extremity was salvaged by left ilio-femoral bypass and later saphenous in situ femoro-popliteal bypass.
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