Acute Limb Ischemy: Theory and Clinical Practice
in Vascular Surgery

Zavacká M; Pobehová J

doi:10.26717/BJSTR.2018.09.001820

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Acute Limb Ischemy: Theory and Clinical Practice in Vascular Surgery

Volume 9 - Issue 4

**Zavacká M* and Pobehová J**

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- Clinic of Vascular Surgery, Slovakia
*Corresponding author: Martina Zavacká, PhD, MpH, Clinic of Vascular Surgery VÚSCH, Inc, Ondavská 8, 040 11 Košice, SR, t.č, Slovakia

Received: September 19, 2018; Published: October 03, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.09.001820

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Abstract

Acute limb ischemy is caused by sudden inadequate blood flow of the limbs. It manifests by pain, disturbance of perception and movement of varying intensity and range. 15% cases is caudes by embolism, 85% is caudes by arterial thrombosis. The diagnostic and therapeutic approach depends on the degree of disability. Is expressed the Rutherford classification. Treatment is conservative, endovascular or surgical.