Very distal vein bypass in patients with thromboangiitis obliterans.

CONCLUSIONS: Surgical therapy with distal vein bypass for persistent ischaemic symptoms after definitive cessation of smoking seems feasible in selected cases with TAO and a suitable distal artery. Close follow-ups of the patients with duplex ultrasound are necessary to identify developing vein graft stenoses. Angioplasty seems to be an important part of the long-term therapeutic concept. PMID: 28271745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - March 7, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Neufang A, Vargas-Gomez C, Ewald P, Vitolianos N, Coskun T, Abu-Salim N, Schmiedel R, von Flotow P, Savvidis S Tags: Vasa Source Type: research