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All right. So we saw earlier what a bypass graft to the

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inflow looks like, which means axillofemoral or fem-fem or

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femorofemoral. Now we're going to look at normal bypass grafts

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in the outflow and runoff. And so we're going to focus on just that

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normal appearance of those grafts.

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And so obviously, we're looking at the inflow vessels and everything.

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We see stranding in the groin, which is suggestive of

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post-surgical changes right here.

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And then this is a patent femoral

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popliteal bypass graft. So you can see that it extends all the way

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from that common femoral artery, and then it goes all the way

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here.

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You can see that it has this ringed appearance, so you know that this is

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definitely a bypass graft. You have this post-surgical change in that medial

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soft tissue right here.

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And really, as we're going, you can see here we've outrun the bolus

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and

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our scan was faster than the contrast bolus.

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So we're going to swap in our immediate delay scans right here, and we can see

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that there's better contrast opacification of the vessels now.

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And as we're scrolling down, we can see that that femoral

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popliteal bypass graft is patent. The anastomosis is okay.

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There's no complications.

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There is, however, another bypass graft now at the level of the runoff.

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So this is another bypass graft that's going from

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that popliteal artery, and then it's anastomosing right

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here to that anterior tibial artery right here.

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And so really, this person doesn't really have much other vessels that are

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doing any work in that left lower extremity, and it's all up to that anterior

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tibial artery and this bypass graft that are really

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performing the inflow and outflow

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structures for that left lower extremity.

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Faculty

Anushri Parakh, MD, MBBS

Instructor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Massachusetts General Hospital

Tags

Vascular Imaging

Vascular

Emergency

CTA