EJVES Extra
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 21-22, February 2007

Small Bowel Perforation due to Tunnelling of a Femorofemoral Crossover Bypass

  • R.C. van Nieuwenhuizen

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. R.C. van Nieuwenhuizen, Department of Vascular Surgery, G4-112, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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  • C. Kox
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  • D.A. Legemate

Department of Vascular Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Accepted 24 October 2006.

We present a case in which sepsis due to small bowel perforation leading to death occurred two days after femorofemoral crossover bypass surgery. Autopsy revealed intra-abdominal sepsis as a result of tunnelling of the graft through the small bowel. Literature review showed that only three comparable cases were described.

Keywords: Femorofemoral (bypass OR graft), Crossover (bypass OR graft), (Postoperative) complications, Perforation, Hollow organ

 

PII: S1533-3167(06)00085-9

doi:10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2006.10.003

Refers to article:

  • Small Bowel Perforation due to Tunnelling of a Femorofemoral Crossover Bypass , 30 December 2006

    R.C. van Nieuwenhuizen, C. Kox, D.A. Legemate
    European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery March 2007 (Vol. 33, Issue 3, Page 376)

EJVES Extra
Volume 13, Issue 2 , Pages 21-22, February 2007

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