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work_ah3gw6euerb67dny63jfnnmage	H. Savolainen	Small is beautiful: Why profundaplasty should not be forgotten	2008	4	.pdf	application/pdf	3069	461	59	on the Rutherford scale without repeat target limb revascularization (TLR) or amputation. and later catheter-based management, surgical profundaplasty is not commonly performed anymore. Between January 2000 and December 2003, 106 profundaplasties were performed in 97 patients at the Swiss (±11) years.The superficial femoral artery (SFA) was occluded in 55 (52%) cases. performed 27 times in 16 (29%) patients (iliac artery 6, the rates of cumulative freedom from surgical reintervention and sustained clinical treatment efficacy. in 24 (44%) patients; it improved significantly (>0.15) after profundaplasty. In our unit, profundaplasty is performed in patients with a patent superficial femoral artery (47%) and in patients with an occluded has compared the results of surgical profundaplasty to Patients with critical ischemia may benefit from profundaplasty as well. were restricted to patients with catastrophic critical ischemia without any possibility of surgical revascularization. of profundaplasty in surgical treatmen of superficial femoral artery occlusion.	./cache/work_ah3gw6euerb67dny63jfnnmage.pdf	./txt/work_ah3gw6euerb67dny63jfnnmage.txt