ABC of arterial and venous disease: Acute limb ischaemia

In the section entitled “Saddle embolus” (p 765) in this article by Ken Callum and Andrew Bradbury (18 March, pp 764-7), an editing slip led to a presence rather than an absence of femoral pulses. The first sentence should have begun: “Patients with acute embolic occlusion of the aortic bifurcation have no femoral pulses. . .”