title: [Angioplasty of the deep femoral artery using a semirigid PTFE prosthesis. Experimental studies].
abstract: Underlining the importance of Profundus Femoral Artery and its capacity to make up for lower limb's haemodynamics during obliterative arteriopathy, the Authors conceive a funnel-shaped intravascular prosthesis, Goretex constructed (PTFE), to introduce, in case of obstruction, in the artery lumen with a suitable instrument. The research is performed through ten oldster dogs whose average weight is twenty-four kilograms. Isolated the deep Femoral Artery and carried out an arteriotomy of about two centimetres on the Common Femoral Artery, we bring the prothesis in Profundis Femoral Artery and we fix it to the wall of the Common Femoral Artery with 8/O microsurgical dots. After thirty days, the arteriographic test shows the patency of the endoprosthesis with normal peripheral flow in nine animals out of ten. By virtue of this preliminary experiment, the Authors point out the semplicity of this intervention, also feasible in local anaesthesia, the good tolerability of the prosthesis and its perfect integration with the surrounding arterious wall, without shifts or dissecting laminar flows between the external prosthesis wall and the vessel lumen of the animal.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, I Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Patologia Speciale Chirurgica I.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rengo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Terrinoni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Galati
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Cesare
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martinazzoli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fiori
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borghese
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Florio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
chemical_list: D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
vernacular_title: Angioplastica dell'arteria femorale profonda con endoprotesi semirigida di PTFE. Ricerche sperimentali.