The treatment of patients with peripheral arterial disease has evolved tremendously since the early 1960s, when Charles Dotter first successfully revascularized a superficial femoral artery ...

In their experiments, the microrobots removed enough material of a blood clot inside an iliac artery to resume blood flow. The iliac artery, obtained from sheep, was chosen due to its straight and ...

A, The incision is depicted for the right side of the abdomen; B the graft is implanted with the iliac vessels exposed. Common anastomoses of graft placement. A, Single renal artery to internal ...