Transiliac wing bypass has been reported to be a viable extra-anatomic alternative technique for patients presenting with a history of groin infection or irradiation.1 Of the 32 reported cases, only two patients had undergone transiliac aortic–tibial or iliotibial bypass.2,3 We report the case of a 72-year-old man with a complex history of multiple lower limb revascularizations, who had been admitted for a deep femoral infected anastomotic pseudoaneurysm (A) and left chronic limb threatening ischemia. Computed tomography showed chronic occlusions at the femoropopliteal level, with a previous thrombosed obturator canal bypass. The only patent lower leg artery was the posterior tibial artery (PTA) from its mid-third to the foot.
A transiliac wing aortic–tibial prosthetic bypass was performed through a pararectal retroperitoneal approach (B/Cover). The infrarenal aorta and common iliac arteries were cross-clamped before implanting an 8-mm expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft soaked in rifampicin at the terminal aorta level. It was tunneled into the retroperitoneal space, over the psoas muscle. A U-shape osteotomy was performed at the anterior left iliac wing border through a second lateral incision to guide the bypass. Another incision was made at the lateral side of the thigh to guide the graft route between the femoral condyles. It was associated with a distal arteriovenous bypass between the PTA and a fibular vein (C), before the distal anastomosis of the aortic–tibial bypass, to partially deviate the aortic blood flow from the PTA into the venous circulation.
The second part of the procedure consisted of deep femoral pseudoaneurysm repair. It was developed at the distal anastomosis level of the thrombosed obturator canal bypass, which was removed to the obturator canal during the same procedure. The deep femoral artery was then ligated with 5-0 polypropylene suture.
Microbiologic analyses found the presence of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in the deep femoral false aneurysm, which was treated by 6 weeks of antibiotic therapy (intravenous daptomycin-cefepime for 3 days, which was switched to oral levofloxacin-rifampicin for a total of 6 weeks). At 3 months, the bypass was patent, and his symptoms were relieved. The patient provided institutional written informed consent for the report of his clinical information and imaging studies.
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