Bilateral Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome: A case report
Journal of the Korean Society for Vascular Surgery
;
: 139-144, 1999.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-21576
ABSTRACT
A case of symptomatic bilateral popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is reported. A twenty-one-year old male, a candidate of athlete, complained of coldness, weakness, pallor and cyanosis of right lower leg and intermittent claudication to both calves during walking or exercise for ten months. Studies revealed that the right popliteal artery was completely occluded, but the left popliteal artery was non-occlusive. An endarterectomy and onlay vein patch graft to the thrombosed and fibrotic right popliteal artery, and myotomies of bilateral medial heads of gastrocnemius muscle were done (May 20, 1998). Follow-up examinations for the last ten months showed a complete relief of symptoms with normal distal arterial flow. It is thought that even though the majority of patients present with unilateral calf claudication, the possiblity of bilateral problems need to be also considered.
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Main subject:
Pallor
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Popliteal Artery
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Veins
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Follow-Up Studies
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Walking
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Muscle, Skeletal
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Transplants
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Cyanosis
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Endarterectomy
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Athletes
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society for Vascular Surgery
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
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