PAD Femoral Bypass Surgery

Hi @kfpd, and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect!

Here is a link to Mayo Clinic’s comparison of open vs endoscopic vein harvesting procedures you may be interested to review as you wait for others to comment.
https://mayoclinic.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/endoscopic-versus-open-great-saphenous-vein-harvesting-for-femora/
I am tagging @justbec2004 and @jojo1970 who mentioned Femoral Artery Bypass may have more information for you.

Do you mind sharing a bit more about your situation? Do you have PAD and are you considering surgery?

@jlharsh
Good morning Janelle,
Yes, I do have PAD and I am considering bypass surgery. I have previously had the femoral blockage successfully opened only to have the blockage reoccur. I then had a second procedure to attempt removing the blockage however my surgeon was unable open the artery on the second attempt. She has suggested a possible bypass procedure.

I’ve had 2 bypass surgery and facing another one
I have felt so alone for 2 years my family is wonderful but no we of them have had this surgery I’m very happy I found this site

@eckhartk Hello, I am wondering if you had 2 femoral bypass surgeries and if so , were they endoscopic or open procedures? Did the first one fail due to the femoral artery being blocked again? Also, thank you for your input and feedback and I hope you are doing well.

Sorry been under the weather but open procedures over 9 hrs each one. It failed because of blood clots invading it the second surgery they used cadaver parts and it’s been over 2 years all is good, I am doing better thanks for asking

Has anyone had a femoral artery blockage opened using the arthrectomy procedure? This is a procedure using a drill on the end of the catheter to get through the blockage.

@kfpd,

I merged your discussion with your existing discussion titled:

"PAD Femoral Bypass Surgery"
- https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pad-femoral-bypass-surgery/

Here, you met @eckhartk. I'd like to invite @christianzane who mentioned atherectomy on Mayo Clinic Connect but not have had the procedure. Members on Connect have mentioned a laser atherectomy, but it does not sound like that is what was mentioned for you @kfpd, correct?

I have pad, i've had a stent put in,ballooning and now they had to put in a gortex artery(vein ) in my leg.THe leg still bothers me to nothing to bad,buut my foot is a different story.

Just had a Fempop bypass surgery for eschemic limb loss. Is anyone going through the same thing? Would love to exchange recovery stories

@dogfather, welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I noticed you haven’t received any replies yet, and I wanted to reach out.

You mentioned having a femoral-popliteal bypass because of limb ischemia. How has your recovery been going since surgery?

I hope others who have experienced a femoral-popliteal bypass or another type of lower-extremity vascular surgery will join the conversation and share their experiences.

Are there particular parts of recovery you’re hoping to compare with others? Has there been anything going particularly well or challenging, or even unexpected?