title: [Treatment of an exposed femorol-popliteal bypass: ex-situ replacement].
abstract: From December 1990 to July 1995 we performed 171 sub-inguinal revascularizations including 35 popliteal revascularizations and 146 revascularizations of an artery in the leg or foot. Five cases of infection were observed within a delay of 7 and 25 days after the operation. There were 3 men and 2 women (mean age 78 years). Four femoro-tibial bypasses were made for critical ischaemia (2 necroses of the toes, one eschar of the heal, one stage III). There was one femoro-popliteal bypass which was associated with a femoro-femoral for necrosis of the toes. Two bypasses were made with polytetrafluoroethylene, one with Dacron and two with the greater saphenous vein. Signs of sepsis were bleeding in 2 patients who had a venous bypass and septicaemia in 2 patients. Local skin necrosis and/or apparently infected discharge or patent pus were seen in all patients. Staphylococcus aureus was found in 4 patients and Enterobacter cloacae in one. Revascularization was done with an extra-anatomic bypass in 4 patients and with a cryopreserved in situ allograft in 1. Mortality was 20% and amputation rate was 40%. All exposed bypasses were infected but the severity of the infection varied depending on the causal germ, general signs and ischaemia of the limb. Conservative treatment has its limits: 1) intact anastomoses, 2) absence of bleeding, 3) patent bypass, 4) absence of generalized sepsis. Results of in situ revascularization depend on the virulence of the causal germ. Radical treatment (explanation + extra-anatomic revascularization) still has indications in infected infra-inguinal bypass surgery.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie vasculaire et thoracique, Hôpital Rothschild, Paris.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gouny
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Couturaud
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cheynel-Hocquet
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lavelle
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chakkour
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nussaume
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D008297:Male; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Traitement d'un pontage fémoro-poplité exposé: remplacement ex-situ.