title: [8-year experience in 40 patients with an axillary-femoral graft].
abstract: The 8 years (1967-1975) experience with axillary-femoral and femoro-femoral grafts in 40 patients is presented; 6 females and 34 males, between 50 and 90 years of age, with arteriosclerosis, all complicated by chronic illnesses. The results have been satisfactory, as the grafts are functioning from 2 months to 80 months (6 years, 8 months), most of them being more than 12 months old. Twenty eight of the 40 patients operated are alive. Four patients (10%) had infection of their grafts. In 6 (15%) the graft closed because of severe progresive distal obstruction. Three patients (7.5%) died in the first 32 post-operative days. In 9 (22.5%) the deaths were not related to surgery. The indications for placement of axillary-femoral and femoro-femoral grafts is established.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001166:Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D001366:Axillary Artery / Q000637:transplantation*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000601:surgery; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005268:Femoral Vein / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous
vernacular_title: Ocho años de experiencia en 40 enfermos con injerto axilo-femoral.