1. Superficial Femoral Artery Autograft Reconstruction for Complicated Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome.
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Paraskevas, Nikolaos, Castier, Yves, Fukui, Sumio, Alsac, Jean-Marc, Soury, Patrick, Laurian, Claude, and Leseche, Guy
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ARTERIAL diseases ,VASCULAR diseases ,AUTOGRAFTS ,AUTOTRANSPLANTATION ,POLYTEF ,PLASTIC coating - Abstract
We present an alternative surgical approach to popliteal artery entrapment syndrome with vascular complications in the absence of a suitable saphenous vein. Three patients (29, 35, and 78 years old) with thrombotic and/or aneurysmal lesions of the popliteal artery from popliteal artery entrapment syndrome were treated with superficial femoral artery autograft reconstruction. The procedure was performed through a medial approach. The superficial femoral artery was harvested in the upper third of the thigh and used as the conduit for reconstruction and the harvested segment was replaced by a polytetrafluoroethylene graft. At follow-up, patients were asymptomatic and duplex ultrasound revealed patent reconstruction with no morphological abnormalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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