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Surgical thrombectomy and transluminal balloon angioplasty for failed above-knee femoropopliteal polytetrafluoroethylene bypass grafts.
Annals of Vascular Surgery 2004 March
Endovascular therapy offers an alternative to redo bypass or surgical graft revision for failed above-knee femoropopliteal PTFE bypass grafts. We evaluated the outcome of surgical thrombectomy and balloon angioplasty for the treatment of thrombosed bypass grafts. Thirty selected patients with thrombosed above-knee femoropopliteal PTFE bypass grafts were treated. Under local anesthesia, a surgical thrombectomy followed by bypass graft angiography and balloon angioplasty of perianastomotic stenoses was performed. Stents were used selectively for suboptimal angioplasty results. Patients underwent duplex scanning of the bypass graft postoperatively and at 6-month intervals. Life-table analysis and log-rank (Mantel-Cox) comparisons were performed. Patients were categorized into two groups on the basis of time elapsed from initial bypass graft construction to graft failure. Group 1 included 21 patients with a mean time to graft failure of 10 months (range, 0-20). Surgical thrombectomy was successful in 20 grafts (95%) and 17 patients had a stent placed after angioplasty. Rethrombosis occurred within 30 days in seven grafts (33%) in group 1 and major amputations were performed in six patients (28%). Group 2 included nine patients with a mean time to initial bypass graft failure of 48 months (range, 29-96). All patients in group 2 had a successful surgical thrombectomy and all received a stent. None of the grafts treated in group 2 reoccluded within 30 days of intervention and one patient (11%) went on to require a major amputation. By life-table analysis, the 6- and 12-month patency for group 1 was 15.3% and 5.1%, compared to 58.3% and 38.9% for group 2 (p = 0.027). Surgical thrombectomy along with balloon angioplasty has an unacceptably high rate of failure and limb loss in patients treated for early (<2 years) femoropopliteal PTFE bypass graft thrombosis. Surgical graft revision or redo bypass is recommended to achieve successful revascularization in these patients. Treatment with surgical thrombectomy and balloon angioplasty achieves significantly greater short-term patency results in patients with late (>2 years) bypass graft failure and may be a reasonable alternative for patients who cannot tolerate reoperation or lack autogenous conduit.
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