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Experience With Milliknit Vascular Bifurcation Prostheses

Surgical Department A, Rikshospitalet, The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway

Knitted vascular bifurcation prostheses were implanted in 65 patients. In 33 cases the indication was abdominal aortic aneurysm; the remainder had arterial occlusive disease, and 94% of these patients were smokers. All patients were given prophylactic antibiotic therapy postoperatively. One patient with athero sclerotic occlusive disease and 7 with aortic aneurysm died within 30 days of surgery. Furthermore, 4 deaths occurred from 2 months to 3 years after surgery, all due to cardiovascular disease. There were no serious postoperative compli cations. At follow-up one limb of the graft had occluded in 2 patients, probably because of poor runoff. Therefore the value of peroperative blood flow mea surement, which gives an excellent assessment of peripheral runoff, is stressed.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 14, No. 4, 256-262 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/153857448001400405


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