How long will it take to recover from a lower limb angioplasty?

recovery time for patients who undergo an endovascular operation usually are shorter compared to the equivalent operation done open, so the surgical bypass. Usually, of course, the keyhole procedure ends up with the closure device on the artery or even with manual pressure. the patient can usually go home after six hours and after that the patient can behave normally, can walk and can start normal activities with no restrictions. Of course if some complications can happen, for example a little hematoma, a hematoma sometimes which is usually happens in less than 10% of the patients and especially in the more severe let's say stage in a very minority of the patient, if the hematoma is there the patient can feel a little bit of pain when especially bending the knee at the level and then of course the thigh at the level of the groin but apart from that usually you know patients are able to start their own life after a few hours from interventions. Usually we keep the patient six hours but I think it's still a bit a very conservative way to manage them they could even go home earlier but you know six hours is not the end of the world, I think.