[ASO as a risk factor of emergency CABG]

The presence of lower extremity arterial occlusive disease (arteriosus sclerosis obliterance of lower extremity) is an important risk factor for patients undergoing emergency coronary artery bypass operations. Those patients had higher mortality and morbidity rates related to the complications of intraaortic balloon pumps (IABP). If lower extremity ischemia is observed, rapid procedures such as removal of the IABP with or without thrombectomy and femorofemoral crossover interposition of a graft should be performed.