Experienced surgeons and radiologists can achieve an AFS of about 80% in selected patients with acute leg ischemia. Information from the NATALI database can be used in selection of an appropriate intervention in the individual patient.

Stripping of the SSV significantly reduced the rate of SPJ incompetence after one year without increasing the rate of complications.

PTFE patch saphenoplasty appears to be safe. Although these are early results, the technique seems potentially as effective as other barrier methods that have been investigated; in ten legs (12 per cent) recurrence was attributed to failure at the level of the PTFE patch.

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