Abstract
Between 1986 and 1991 we performed F-P bypass procedures of thirty six patients fourty four limbs using REP and ASV with above knee anastomosis for ASO. The background factors of both groups were not different except their ages. As postoperative medication we used, respectivevly, warfarin (80.0%, 33.3%) and antiplatelet(100%, 90.5%). In REP group, fifteen patients sixteen limbs, the cumulative patency rates were 100% at one year, 80.0% at two years, 80.0% at four years. The late graft occlusion occured in two patients, one of them was probably due to intimal hyperplasia at the anastomosis site, other one was presumably due to the progress of distal lesion. On the other hand, the patency rates were 100% at one year, 96.3% at two years, 87.5% at four years, 82.4% at five years in ASV group, twenty one patients twenty eight limbs. REP as the material of F-P bypass with above knee anastomosis for ASO, was not significantly different from ASV in patency rate and was revealed usefull.
