Acute limb ischemia occurs due to a sudden decrease in the blood flow to a limb, resulting in a potential threat to the viability of the extremity. Unfortunately, the threat is not only to the ...

In the 1960s and the 1970s, balloon catheter thrombectomy, first introduced by Fogarty et al., [5] became the cornerstone of therapy. Interestingly, this marked the beginning of catheter-based ...

Now, “high lateral” MIs with ST segment elevation in the limb leads I and aVL can show ... as the changes are indeed from myocardial ischemia, but not officially a STEMI — meaning a big ...