(1) Surgery Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;(2) Diagnostic Radiology Department, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C660, 20205 Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract:
Fogarty catheter embolectomy is occasionally associated with complications, including intimal dissection and thrombosis. We report a case of this complication in the iliac artery treated angiographically by thrombectomy with a balloon occlusion catheter.