title: Surgical treatment of occlusion of the infrarenal abdominal aorta. Experience with 55 patients.
abstract: A series of 55 patients with occlusion of the infrarenal abdominal aorta operated on in the 15-year period 1966-1980 is presented. The type of operation was an extra-anatomic reconstruction in four cases and some type of anatomic repair in 51 cases. The operative mortality was 5.4%. The cause of death was myocardial infarction in two out of three cases. After a follow-up period of 90.4 months on average 25 patients were alive and were reached to a follow-up examination. Nineteen out of these 25 patients (76%) were symptom-free and six patients (24%) complained of mild to moderate symptoms related to obstructive arteriosclerotic lesions of the lower extremities. During the follow-up 27 patients expired. The most common causes of late deaths were myocardial infarction (13 out of 27 patients) and CVA (5 out of 27 patients).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007925:Leriche Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies