title: Nine year patent femorotibial expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft bypass.
abstract: A 65-year-old patient with a trophic lesion and severe intermittent claudication in the right lower extremity was surgically treated by femoro-distal-tibial bypass employing a prosthetic 6 mm diameter PTFE (Gore-Tex) graft. It is still patent nine years later as shown by a follow-up arteriogram. The patient's trophic lesion disappeared, and there are presently no symptoms of intermittent claudication. When arterial revascularization in the leg is indicated, an option to a saphenous vein graft for long bypass is the use of a PTFE graft.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Economics General Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Pittaluga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000601:surgery*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors; D014654:Vascular Patency
chemical_list: D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene