It was reported to gore that a patient presented with a claudication in the right leg with a stenosis/occlusion between the superficial femoral artery and the popliteal artery.On (b)(6) 2011, a gore® viabahn® endoprosthesis was implanted.On (b)(6) 2011, an acute thrombosis of the endoprosthesis was diagnosed and on (b)(6) 2012, a surgical bypass procedure was successfully performed.On (b)(6) 2012, a major amputation of the leg was performed.This incident was from a retrospective evaluation of patients (conducted by dr (b)(6)) who were treated with covered stents and bare-metal stents of occlusive disease of the femoropopliteal artery between 2009 and 2012.
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