title: [Extra-anatomical bypass for subclavian artery occlusion].
abstract: 20 patients with subclavian artery occlusion were treated by extra-anatomical bypass from 1989 to 1996. There were 9 men and 11 women, aged from 20 to 63 years with a duration of 1 month to 18 years. The main causes of illness were Takayasu's arteritis and atherosclerosis. Symptoms of upper extremity ischemia were present in 17 patients and vertebrobasilar insufficiency in 11. Carotid-subclavian/axillary bypass and axilloaxillary bypass were performed on 17 and 3 patients respectively. There were no operative deaths. Relief of symptomes was achieved in all the patients except one who had reocclusion of bypass graft due to rather poor outflow vessel. We stressed the surgiacal technique of extra-anatomical bypass in the treatment of subclavian artery occlusion. With few postoperative complications and high patency rate, we consider extra-anatomical bypass a safe, simple, well-tolerated and durable procedure for the treatment of subclavian artery occlusive disease in high-risk patients.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Institute of Medical Sciences.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D001366:Axillary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods