Affiliation:
1. Department of Surgery, Selly Oak Hospital, Raddlebarn Road, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK
Abstract
Abstract
A consecutive series of 315 patients underwent arterial reconstruction for 329 critically ischaemic lower limbs over a 5-year period. Patients were not excluded from limb salvage surgery on the basis of poor run-off on preoperative angiography. Femorocrural bypass to a single calf vessel was required in 239 limbs (73 per cent); the 30-day cumulative mortality rate was 7 per cent, rising to 41 per cent at 5 years. Cumulative graft patency at 30 days, 1 year, 2 years and 5 years was 96, 85, 84 and 82 per cent respectively and was independent of the level of reconstruction. In situ long saphenous vein was the conduit of choice for distal bypass but, when this was absent, satisfactory results were obtained with arm vein or composite vein grafts. Acceptable results can be obtained for reconstructive surgery without preoperative angiographic selection of patients. An aggressive approach to limb salvage is therefore justified.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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