• T Reix, P Rudelli-Szychta, B Mery, M A Sevestre-Pietri, and J Pietri.
• Service de Chirurgie Vasculaire, CHU d'Amiens, France.
• Ann Vasc Surg. 2000 Nov 1; 14 (6): 594-601.

AbstractThe usefulness of aggressive surgical management of popliteal arterial aneurysm is now widely accepted. Reconstruction is usually performed using either prosthesis or saphenous vein autograft. Autografts are preferable but not always possible because of problems of availability and congruence. An alternative conduit for cases involving lesions spanning the articular midline of the knee is the superficial femoral artery. From 1993 to 1998, we used superficial femoral artery autografts to treat a total of 18 aneurysms in 12 patients. All patients were male with a mean age of 66 years (range, 42 to 75). Fourteen aneurysms were treated during elective procedures, including four in combination with aortic repair. The remaining four were treated on an emergency basis. Exposure was achieved via the internal medial route in all cases. Treatment consisted of exclusion or aneurysmorraphy. The mean length of the autograft harvested from the ipsilateral thigh was 10.2 cm (range, 6-18). The harvested graft was replaced by a PTFE prosthesis. Our results show that superficial femoral artery autografts are a suitable alternative for two indications: for patients with small aneurysms located in the middle of the popliteal artery, since autografts provide excellent congruence, and for patients with no other useable donor vein or concurrent deep venous thrombosis.

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