title: Intermediate and long-term outcomes after treating symptomatic persistent sciatic artery using different techniques.
abstract: Persistent sciatic artery (PSA) is a rare congenital vascular malformation. In this article, we have described the case of a 66-year-old woman presenting with a pulsatile mass in the left buttock and bilateral lower limb ischemia, who underwent surgical therapy. Preoperative computed tomography scanning showed a left thrombosed PSA aneurysm (PSAA) with concomitant occlusion of bilateral iliac, bilateral common femoral, and left popliteal arteries. After recanalization of the left common femoral artery occlusion with a systemic heparin treatment, the patient underwent bypass surgery (left femoropopliteal bypass, right iliofemoral bypass) and PSAA exclusion. Postoperative computed tomography scanning 20 months after surgery revealed that the excluded PSAA was thrombosed with no refilling collateral flow, and that the bypass grafts were patent in both legs. In addition to this case report, a literature review of PubMed articles published between 1965 and 2009 that included the treatment and intermediate/long-term management of symptomatic PSAs was conducted. We found 45 articles (67 limbs), of which 24 (29 limbs) described the intermediate/long-term outcomes in patients treated for symptomatic PSA. Regardless of the method of arterial reconstruction or PSAA repair, intermediate/long-term outcomes of different treatments for lower limb ischemia and PSAAs were satisfactory, and the patients were asymptomatic during the follow-up period which ranged from 2 months to 10 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Fumio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.forename: Gembu
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yamaura
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shiroto
authors.forename: Mamika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Motokawa
authors.forename: Fuminobu
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001158:Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D003097:Collateral Circulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D035002:Lower Extremity / Q000098:blood supply*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures