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When do I need a fem pop bypass?
Femoropopliteal bypass (or Fem Pop bypass) is a common procedure used to treat arterial conditions above or below the knee to bypass blockage inside a blood vessel. However, not all conditions require a Fempop bypass. In this video, Dr Jaffer explains the signs and underlying conditions that might suggest that you need a Fem Pop bypass.
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The main reasons to do a fem pop or fem distal bypass are if you have what we call critical limb ischemia. And that critical limb ischemia means that there's not enough blood supply to keep the tissue or the cells alive lower down in the leg. So you might have an ulcer, you might have some gangrene, or you might have pain in your foot that's persistent day and night despite taking regular painkillers for a couple of weeks. So for that reason, we would need to take blood from above the blocked area in your leg down to below the blocked area in your leg to get blood into the foot to cause healing or to alleviate or to get rid of that constant pain that you might be suffering in. Other reasons to do bypass might be for claudication, which is pain when you walk. But really, if you're having a bypass for claudication, the claudication or pain when you walk needs to be quite lifestyle limiting to warrant the risk of having a significant surgery, surgical procedure done to you.
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