Is bypass graft technique effective in arteriovenous graft?

CONCLUSIONS: The 1-year primary patency of the technique was poor, and patency was hard to maintain without the assistance of PTA. Given that frequent PTA was conducted in 74% of patients, it may be a cause for the poor patency. Many cases required thrombectomies, which have the disadvantage of being more invasive than PTA. We concluded that bypass graft technique is not valuable for cases that received frequent PTA. PMID: 26349864 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Journal of Vascular Access - Category: Surgery Tags: J Vasc Access Source Type: research