femoro-femoral cross-over by-pass an alternative treatment of unilateral iliac artery obstruction

ABSTRACT

From 10/82 until 10/89, 13 femoro-femoral cross over by-pass procedures were performed in Assiut University Hospital. The low mortality rate 7% and the high patency rates 77% in poor risk patients suggest that procedure can be used in other patients with symptomatic occlusive disease of one iliac artery if a femoral pulse of good quality exists in the opposite groin