Surgeons saved the leg of an 86-year-old patient from amputation

Doctors of the Fifth Hospital saved the leg of an 86-year-old Nizhny Novgorod man from amputation - an elderly patient entered GKB No. 5 in critical condition, suffering acute pain for a week and not seeking help.

A team of vascular surgeons diagnosed acute arterial failure and urgently sent the pensioner to the operating room. During the intervention, doctors found not only massive thrombosis, but also severe atherosclerosis of the arteries of the calf, completely blocking blood flow.

To avoid amputation, doctors conducted a complex hybrid operation: first removed a clot from the hamstring artery, and then performed balloon angioplasty of the vessels of the calf - blood supply to the limb was restored in full. The patient has already been discharged home for further outpatient treatment.

The operation was conducted by a team consisting of Gegham Movsisyan, Ruslan Islamov and Dmitry Volkov with the participation of anesthesiologists Peter Kuditsky, Sergei Demchenkov and operating sister Valeria Nikitina.