Abstract
The use of prosthetic grafts in the treatment of intermittent claudication is still a controversy. Prosthetic bypass for this usually benign condition may in some cases lead to a graft infection. This potentially disastrous complication is difficult to manage. One hundred forty-one consecutive operations done on 129 patients between January, 1990 and December, 2001 in a single university vascular unit have been studied. Lymphatic complications and local infections have been related to preoperative risk factors, complications, secondary procedures, and outcome. During a mean follow-up period of 42 months, lymph complications occurred after 18 operations, surgical site infection after 11 procedures, and graft infection after 17 operations. Eleven infected grafts were treated successfully without graft excision. Six of these grafts healed with antibiotics only. The risk of developing a local infection was significantly correlated with postoperative lymph fistula. Reoperative surgery was associated with graft infection. Graft infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus always warranted surgery, either local revision or graft excision. The present series had a high frequency of graft infections. Our data suggest that a selective appro...Continue Reading
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