Abstract
The purpose of this study was to review the natural history and clinical outcome of patients with infrainguinal autogenous graft infection (IAGI), to evaluate the effectiveness of attempted graft preservation, to determine those variables associated with graft salvage, and to better determine optimal treatment. We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients undergoing infrageniculate vein grafts at three hospitals between 1994 and 2000 who had a wound infection involving the graft. Clinical and bacteriologic variables were analyzed and correlated with graft salvage, limb salvage, and clinical outcome. During this 7-year period, 487 patients underwent an infrageniculate vein graft, and 68 (13%) had clinical evidence of IAGI. Twenty-seven patients presented with drainage from the wound, 15 with wound separation and cellulitis, 18 with soft tissue infection extending to the graft, 4 with an abscess and cellulitis, and 4 with bleeding. Ten patients (15%) had systemic symptoms (defined as a white blood cell count > 15,000 and temperature > 38.5 degrees C). Forty infections developed in the thigh, 17 in the groin, and 11 in the lower leg. An anastomosis was exposed in 15 patients. Wound cultures were positive for bacteria in 52 ...Continue Reading
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