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Where are the incision for fem pop bypass?
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Where are the incision for 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. In this video, Dr Jaffer explains where the incisions would be made in a Fem pop bypass procedure for proper treatment.

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Typically, you need an incision in the groin for a fem pop or fem distal bypass to access the blood vessels in that location, the common femoral artery, and that acts as the inflow to the bypass. And then you need an incision lower down in the leg, either in the thigh or the calf. And that incision gets to the arteries down below where the blockage is to allow us to bypass the blocked area. And the tube we use to perform the bypass is then tunneled either under the skin or deep under the muscles to connect up the inflow and the outflow to get blood down to where it needs to be. you

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