Peripheral Bypass Surgery

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What is Peripheral Bypass Surgery?

Peripheral artery bypass surgery is done to re-route the blood supply around a blocked artery in the leg. You had this surgery because fatty deposits in your arteries were blocking blood flow. This caused symptoms of pain and heaviness in your leg that made walking difficult.

  • Gangrene.
  • Pain in the toes or feet.
  • Non-healing wounds over pressure points.
  • Numbness, weakness or heaviness in muscles when walking.
  • Bleeding
  • Heart attack
  • Death
  • Failure of the graft
  • Leg edema
  • Nerve injury
  • Wound
  • Incision or graft infections
  • Kidney failure
  • Gangrene.
  • Pain in the toes or feet.
  • Non-healing wounds over pressure points.
  • Numbness, weakness or heaviness in muscles when walking.
  • Breathing problems.
  • Heart attack or stroke.
  • Allergic reactions to medicines.
  • Blood clots in the legs that may travel to the lungs.

Patients undergoing PVB risk wound infection, bleeding, pneumonia, conduit occlusion, and peripheral nerve damage. These patients often also have a higher prevalence of cerebrovascular and coronary artery disease, significantly increasing their risk for stroke and myocardial infarction surgery

How is it diagnosed?

How is it diagnosed?

Peripheral vascular bypass (PVB) is the surgical revision of blood flow to restore perfusion distal to an occluded or otherwise disrupted arterial segment. Peripheral vascular bypass procedures can involve any arteries, excluding those in the heart or the brain.

How is it treated?

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A peripheral vascular bypass, also called a lower extremity bypass, is a minimally-invasive procedure (small incisions of 2-3 inches long / general anesthesia) performed to reroute blood flow around a blocked blood vessel (artery).

 

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