Name of medical proceedure done on my legs.?

Question

Would some kind person who has some knowledge of medical terminology, help me fill out a questionair which is required by the dvl.
Some time ago my legs refused to work! and I had a proceedure, which I believe was called, a femoral by pass, and vein graft? where a tube was inserted across the stomach! also a ballon was used to extend the veins in the legs. {happy to say successfully}
I have been advised to used the proper medical term, when filling in the form, may I thank you in anticipation. Peter.

A stent was used,
The proceedure was messed up initialy, the main femoral vein burst, while they were expanding the vein!! thats how I ended up with a bypass. i looked it up on the web, seems it was a femoropopliteal by pass?!

thanks for your contribution.

Answer 1

From what you're describing, it was an arterial bypass graft; they often harvest a vein to connect one vessel to another, or one place on a vessel to another. Again, I'm just guessing, but it sounds like they tried to do a balloon stenting of a blocked common iliac artery which ruptured, requiring an ilio-iliac bypass graft or an aorto-iliac bypass graft (that's the across-the-stomach thing) with stenting of the distal stenoses. It is not, of course, possible to be completely sure on the anatomic details without more data than you have.

Best guess: aorto-iliac bypass grafting with distal stenting

Answer 2

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) is the procedure where they expand an artery with a ballon. This is not usually done with a vein since they are much more fragile.

The types of lower extermity bypasses include:
Axial-fem bypass (axillary artery to fem art)
Aorto-illiac
Aorto-femoral
Aorto-bifemoral (http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/Aortobifemoral-bypass)
Femoral-Femoral (usually coupled with one of the above).
Femoral-Tibial
Femoral-popliteal (http://www.webmd.com/hw-popup/Femoropopliteal-bypass)
Femoral-distal.
In-situ vein bypass.

It depends on where across your stomach we're talking about: does the graft run up and down? Then its an ax-fem. If it runs from right to left (or left to right) its a fem-fem bypass.

Any bypass that ends below the knee (-popliteal, -tibial, -distal) should use natural vein as a conduit. The others can be performed with synthetic material (grafts).

The procedure to repair a burst artery is usually the "vein-patch angiolpasty"

Answer 3

The description is anatomic, so we can only guess. My stab at it would be that you had a graft from the iliac to the femoral artery, an iliofemoral bypass. Want to post your angiogram?

Answer 4

Did you get a stent?