Atherosclerotic Occlusive Disease of the Superior Mesenteric Artery: Late Results of Reconstructive Surgery

Endovascular versus open revascularization for chronic mesenteric ischemia: a comparative study

“…In contrast, Foley et al [4], by using a retrograde single-vessel bypass graft to SMA for acute and chronic mesenteric ischemia, reported a low peri-operative mortality, few multifactorial respiratory failure, and good longterm results. Similar findings were already given by Kieny et al [15] and Cormier et al [16]. In our practice, a retrograde single BPG to SMA is performed in older patients or in patients with coronary artery disease whenever possible and we avoided celiac aortic clamping.…”

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia: results and 3 years of follow-up in 23 patients

“…The primary longterm clinical success is equal to that of surgery (50-100%, mean Å 84% for follow-up periods of 24-69 months) [2,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Moreover, in two surgical series with 93% and 70% primary long-term clinical success, respectively, the results improved with a second intervention and secondary clinical success reached 97% and 100%, respectively [22,24].…”

“…The technical success rate is 100%, and the immediate clinical success rate is 96% (range Å 82-100%). Nevertheless, the surgical mortality rate is 9% (range Å 0-17%), and the morbidity rate is 25% (range Å 13-33%) [2,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25].…”

The Surgical Treatment of Chronic Intestinal Ischemia: Results of a recent series

“…The direction of the retrograde SMA graft should be straight and smooth to avoid kinking and compression when peritonization of the graft is performed. The straight configuration of the graft, is usually favoured, but a curvilinear, omega-like configuration from left in order to obtain a smooth reposition of the graft at peritoneal and mesenterial covering is also employed (19).…”