DO-IT-YOURSELF FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS

Citation
Ad. Fox et al., DO-IT-YOURSELF FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 77(5), 1995, pp. 392-394
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
ISSN journal
00358843
Volume
77
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
392 - 394
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8843(1995)77:5<392:DFB>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
A 74-year-old male claudicant had undergone operative repair of his bi lateral varicose veins 22 years earlier. His records confirmed that on the right side he had only had a saphenofemoral disconnection. Duplex scanning and angiography of his right leg demonstrated an occluded su perficial femoral artery (SFA) and a network of channels between the p roximal SFA stump and the long saphenous vein (LSV). Distal SFA recons titution occurred through two distal arteriovenous fistulas. We believ e that this is the first case of a spontaneous femorodistal bypass gra ft secondary to neovascularisation recorded in the literature.