FTAO Sqad.

[Jemisa]

Hello Sqad, can I pick your brains yet again please?
I have been diagnosed with - Bilateral Femoral Bruits - in the last few days, can you explain to me in English what that is please.
Yes, I've Googled it but its not at all clear even there.

ThanQ - Jem

[anneasquith]

hi jem, did your doctor not give you any explanation ?

[Sqad]

It´s not a diagnosis it is a symptom.

A bruit is a noise made, picked up usually by a stethoscope, which when heard over an artery indicates reduced blood flow through that artery do to narrowing.

You have a reduction in blood flow in your Femoral Artery in the groin, impairing blood supply to your legs, of which there are one or two reasons, both of which can be dealt with.

[Sqad]

anneasquith

<<<<hi jem, did your doctor not give you any explanation ?<<<


Obviously not!

[ummmm]

And even when Doctors do give an explanation it's usually too much information to take in.

[Jemisa]

Yes my surgeon explained very well what was wrong and also I've to have an UV scan soon. From there he'll decide the treatment.But he never gave it a name.This morning I rec'd a letter that must be given to my GP and it had the name BFB and I was curious as to what it meant.
ThanX Sqad for the explanation.

Hello ummmm & anne. :o}

jem

[Sqad]

Bilateral Femoral Blockage.

[Sqad]

Bilateral Femoral Bruits is even more likely ;-)

[anneasquith]

good to hear, good commumication from your doc jem,

[anneasquith]

squd. what treatment could jem receive to treat her condition ? would be interested to hear about the treatment available. TIA.

[Sqad]

anne...that would depend upon many factors....her medical condition (how fit she was) and how far she could walk without getting pain in her calves (if she is getting pain)

The bruits only are an indication that something id wrong in the artery, but doesn't say what it is and she may need angiograms to pinpoint the blockage.

She may need no treatment.

She may need a bypass....ilio-popliteal.....that is a vein graft between the artery in her pelvis by passing her femoral artery in her thigh and joining up again to the artery behind her knee...the Popliteal artery.

anne ...the above is pure conjecture on my part depending upon the results of her investigations.