Chapter 13 Evaluation of arterial bypass grafts and stents
Treatment of Lower Arterial Disease Conservative treatment cessation of smoking regular exercise lowering cholesterol and LDL Medications options: Trental, Pletal
Interventional Procedures Bypass graft Synthetic: Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) , Dacron Autogenous vein grafts Reversed In situ Percutaneous angioplasty (PTA) Stents
Aorto-femoral grafts 1. 2. 3. Axillo-fem Fem-fem Aorto-iliac Fem -Fem
Femoral - distal graft In situ Vein Graft Uses greater saphenous vein (GSV) in native bed Valves leaflets are excised Perforators / tributaries are ligated Proximal and distal ends are anastomosed to artery
Valvulatome
Occluded SFA In situ vein graft CFV CFA PFA SFA GSV CFA GSV ligated Perforators Valves CFV CFA PFA SFA GSV CFA GSV ligated perforators
Reverse vein graft GSV harvested CFA SFA Vein graft GSV harvested Perforating veins and tributaries are ligated and cut Vein reversed and implanted as bypass Valves are not excised Small diameter proximally, large diameter distally is advantageous
PTFE Graft
In situ fem-tibial graft femoro-popliteal graft
Graft surveillance 20-30 % stenosis rate within 1 year if graft occludes, 20-50% patency rate after thrombectomy 60% of graft stenoses are ASX, due to limited ambulation - limb salvage
Bypass graft surveillance Identify graft type Perform ABI Map graft and record spectral waveforms prox, mid and distally Measure PSV
Graft evaluation Graft inflow and anastomosis entire graft wall irregularity partially excised valve leaflets A-V in non-ligated perforators (insitu only)
Graft evaluation Aneurysm P-aneurysm Distal anastomosis run-off Vein graft aneurysm
Distal anastomosis Stenosis has an abrupt increase in velocity High frequency Stenosis has an abrupt increase in velocity
Bypass graft surveillance 0.15 drop in ABI suggests graft stenosis Duplex is more sensitive than ABI for stenosis
> 50% graft stenosis Peak Velocities > 150cm/s Velocity ratio > 2.0 Post stenostic turbulence
Pt. Flint Recent In-situ femoro-popliteal. No increase post-op in ABI
Vein graft stenosis
Graft - valve stenosis Graft stenosis
Vein graft -pre stenosis PSV 39 cm/s
Vein graft, max stenosis PSV 504 cm/s
Graft- Post stenosis PSV 120cm/s
Distal vein graft PSV 49 cm/s
Graft surveillance Dennis Bandyk, MD, RVT
Graft surveillance Threshold for graft revision > 300 cm/s VR > 3.5 low velocity < 40-45 cm/s ABI Dennis Bandyk, MD, RVT
Reverse vein graft stenosis Valve cusp Transverse vein graft
Stents Palmaz - balloon deployed Wallstent - self expanding
Palmaz stent - nonexpanded Palmaz stent expanded on PTA balloon
Stent sites: peripheral vascular Aorta renals iliacs femoral - popliteal carotid
Stent deployment
Carotid stent
Graft waveform 1 week post op Hyperemia will usually occur in normal, patent grafts in the early post op period.
Endoluminal AAA repair with covered stent Fem-fem bypass