A personal experience with direct reconstruction and extra-anatomic bypass for aortoiliofemoral occlusive disease

The worse operative mortality and late survival rates for EAB in this series largely were preordained by the frequent selection of EAB for patients who represented poor medical risks for direct AIF reconstruction. However, the durability of aortofemoral, aortoiliac, or iliofemoral bypass compared with either femorofemoral or axillofemoral bypass makes direct reconstruction clearly superior for average or low-risk patients. Direct reconstruction should be used preferentially in such cases, especially in women and for younger patients of either gender.