[Retrospective study of 140 Dacron prosthesis of aortic bifurcation (author's transl)]

For this study, 140 patients who received an implantation of an aortic bifurcation, between 1973 and 1975, were studied retrospectively. The mortality during hospitalization in that period was 8.5% and mostly had a cardial cause (5%). The grade of arterial insufficiency, at the time of surgery, was an important prognostic factor : any patient, treated for claudicatio intermittens, who was free of pain at rest had no arterial ulcus, died due to surgery. Apart from a short description of the indications to surgery, the techniques and the general post surgical complications, results of long term follow-up (3.5 and 6 years) are given. Besides the nature of the material used, progression of atheromatosis plays a role in late obstruction of the implant. If cerebral or coronary arteries are affected, they are now investigated previous to aorta surgery and treated at the same time or before the new aorta bifurcation is placed.