Reconstructive Operations for Aortoiliac Obliterative Disease

THE purpose of this report is to analyze the experience with reconstructive operations for obliterative disease of the distal aorta and iliac arteries at the Peter Bent Brigham and West Roxbury Veterans Administration hospitals between October, 1952, and October, 1963. The results in the 52 patients operated upon between 1952 and 1958 have previously been reported.1 In the years 1958 to 1963, 62 additional patients have been operated upon. The total experience comprises 114 operations. The present communication will deal with the 1952–58 group only to the extent of examining the five-year to eleven-year follow-up results of the 40 patients . . .