[Revascularization surgery in infected fields: on the search for the ideal solution].
The surgical management of aorto-iliac prosthetic infections and infectious aneurysms still remains nowadays as a serious and controversial issue, coursing with high morbi-mortality rates and having not reached completely satisfactory or consensual therapeutic solutions. Among the diverse surgical alternatives, the author enhances the extra-anatomic revascularization and the "in situ" procedures, which are different according to the material employed, including the prosthetic grafts, the arterial and venous autografts and the cryopreserved arterial allografts, describing its indications, advantages and disadvantages and biological behavior of these diverse materials commonly employed in the revascularization surgery in infected fields.
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Clinica Universitária de Cirurgia Vascular do Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.
D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000209:etiology*; D001158:Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015925:Cryopreservation; D006801:Humans; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods; D014680:Veins / Q000637:transplantation*