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Management of Peripheral Arterial Embolism

From the Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

M.M. Agha, M.D.

From the Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

M.A. Hamza, M.D., F.I. C.A.

Assist. Prof. in Vascular Surg., Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt

This study included one hundred patients with peripheral arterial embolism. The average age was 45 years with predominence of female over male patients (3:2). The source of emboli was found to be the left side of the heart in 90% of patients. Rheumatic heart disease was the primary cardiopathy in 70% of the cases. Eight percent of the patients were presented more than 24 hours after the onset of symptoms and embolectomy was carried out in 77% of cases. The pur pose of this study is to clarify the magnitude of the problem as to the etiology, different clinical presentations and the operative results after embolectomy us ing a Fogarty balloon catheter and its relation to time interval.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 20, No. 3, 152-156 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/153857448602000302


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