Percutaneous extraluminal (subintimal) recanalization of a brachial artery occlusion following cardiac catheterization

Abstract

A 47-year-old woman presented with disabling right arm claudication 10 weeks after Sones cardiac catheterization via a brachial artery cut-down. A technique of extraluminal recanalization of the brachial artery occlusion, used to treat this patient, is described.