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- Title
Polytetrafluoroethylene Bifurcation Prosthesis for the Treatment of Aortoiliac Atherosclerotic Occlusive Disease: A 5-Year Clinical Trial.
- Authors
Motta, G.; Ratto, G. B.; Secco, G. B.; Fardelli, R.; Beretta, E.
- Abstract
During the period of 1984-986, the authors have implanted 13 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) bifurcation grafts for the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease. The patients were 12 men and 1 woman, their mean age being 60.5 ± 6.3 years. The indications for aortoiliac reconstruction were limiting claudication in 6 patients and rest pain in 7 patients. Follow-up lasted forty-six ± seven months and included physical examination, measurement of the ankle-brachial pressure index, and ultrasonography. Arteriography was performed exclusively in symptomatic patients. No operative deaths or major complications were recorded. Graft limb occlusion occurred in 2 patients, eight and twenty-two months after surgery, respectively. The five-year patency rate was 85%. During follow-up, there was no evidence of graft infection, kinking, stenosis, or dilatation. Neither perigraft seroma nor anastomotic aneurysm developed. .
- Subjects
POLYTEF; PROSTHETICS; ARTIFICIAL organs; ARTIFICIAL implants; AORTA surgery; CARDIAC surgery
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1990, Vol 24, Issue 5, p335
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857449002400506