• DepartmentofVascularSurgery,AffiliatedHospitalofHubeiCollegeTCM,Wuhan430061;
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Toinvestigatenewgraftmaterialsforreconstructionofarterialcirculationforlowerlimbsarterialischemia,authorstreated18patientswith24ischemiclowerlimbswithbypassofsmallsaphenousveininsitufromMay,1992toMay,1997whowerefollowedupforonetofiveyears.Theshorttermresultshowedthatischemicsymptomswereimprovedsignificantlyin88.8%oflimbs.Goodorexcellentrateofthelongtermresultreached83.3%.Thepatencyrateofthegraftbythelifetableanalysisin1,3and5yearswas95.8%,79.6%and70.0%respectively.Weconcludethatusingsmallsaphenousveinasthegraftmaterialtoreconstructthecirculationoftheischemiclegisagoodoperationforlongsegmentofarteriosclerosisobliterans(ASO)andthromboangiitisobliterans(TAO)withtheocclusionofthreebranchesinferiortopoplitealartery.Ithastheadvantagesofnolimittolength,unnecessarilypredamagingvalvesandligatingbranchesinfullcourseconsequentlytoavoidreversionanddistortion.

Citation: WangChaosheng,LiuChanghua,HeGanxiang,etal.. BYPASSOFSMALLSAPHENOUSVEININSITUFORLOWERLIMBARTERIALISCHEMIA. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 1999, 6(4): 230-232. doi: Copy