Live Case #6 : Percutaneous Bypass for long femoro-popliteal artery occlusion

Educational objectives

• Define the indication of percutaneous femoro-popliteal bypass (PFPB) in severe lower limb disease.
• Plan a step-by-step procedure of PFBP.
• How to manage antegrade and retrograde access?
• How to choose the accurate spots for the implantation of PFPB: proximal and distal implantation.
• Selecting the appropriate devices : guidewires, microcatheters, guiding catheter, balloons and covered stents
• How to modify a guiding catheter for a coaxial transseptal needle system?
• How to safely perform a puncture using transseptal needle through occluded femoral artery.
• How to safely perform an externalization and extra-vessel trajectory?
• Tips and tricks to a successful puncture and reentry.
• What are adjunctive pharmacotherapies?

Step-by-step procedure: supra-articular femoropopliteal percutaneous bypass

1) Access sites:

• Antegrade femoral access: 6 French sheath and 8 French sheath for final stenting.
• Retrograde access through the anterior tibial artery (ATA).

2) Retrograde recanalization:

• V-18™ wire and Terumo 0.035” angled stiff Glidewire® with the support of TrailBlazer™ microcatheter.
• Advancement of knuckled wire through tibioperoneal trunk (TPT) subintimally until the landing zone (distal third of left superficial femoral artery (FSA))
• Pre-dilatation: OTW Armada balloons : 3*60 mm then 5*60 mm.

3) Preparation of the landing zone:

• Predilatation: OTW Armada balloon 5*60 mm.
• Use the balloon in place to identify the landing zone..

4) Preparation of the transseptal needle:

• 6 French guiding catheter cut to obtain a shorter one at the level of the transseptal needle curve
• Insertion of the transseptal needle in the modified 6 French guiding catheter to protect the needle (avoid vessel perforation or dissection).
• Coaxial system: direct the transseptal needle and puncture safely.

5) Externalisation and extravessel trajectory :

• Puncture of the vessel wall toward the medial side of the proximal cap of the occluded vessel (avoid collateral vessels).
• Injection of diluted Lidocaïne (0.1%) locally.
• Advancement of the knuckled Terumo 0.035’’ angled Glidewire® into the extravascular space, paralleled to the native vessel (following calcifications) with the support of the guiding catheter.

6) Reentry

• Balloon dilatation from retrograde access at the reentry site (REVERSE CART technique).
• Puncture at the reentry site: balloon and guidewire from retrograde access serve as a benchmark, and orthogonal views.
• Pre-dilatation of the reentry site: Armada OTW balloon 4*60 mm
• Positioning of the guiding catheter downstream to the reentry site, inside the vessel structure.

7) Stenting:

• Exchange to a support guidewire: Lunderquist Extra Stiff 0.035’’ guidewire.
• Exchange to an 8 French sheath 45cm which is advanced downstream to the distal reentry point.
• Stenting the reentry point: Covera™ stent 6*100 mm.
• Stenting the extra-vessel trajectory: Viabahn®7*150 mm with long overlapping.
• Stenting the exit point Viabahn® 7*80 mm with long overlapping.

8) Antegrade angioplasty:

• Predilatation and stenting of the popliteal artery.
• Remove ATA sheath and balloon hemostasis.

9) Post dilatation of the covered stents

10) Medical adjunctive treatments

• Pre-procedural: Heparin and Antibioprophylaxis.
• Post procedural: Triple therapy: Aspirin 75mg o.d. + Clopidogrel 75mg o.d. + Enoxaparin 100 UI/kg b.i.d. : 15 days.
• DUS 15 days after.
• Stop Clopidogrel and continue Aspirin 75mg b.i.d and NAOC.

Bibliography

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5.  Constans J, Bura-Rivière A, Visona A, Brodmann M, Abraham P, Olinic D-M, et al. Urgent need to clarify the definition of chronic critical limb ischemia – a position paper from the European Society for Vascular Medicine. Vasa. 1 mai 2019;48(3):223‑7.

6.  Krievins DK, Halena G, Scheinert D, Savlovskis J, Szopiński P, Krämer A, et al. One-year results from the DETOUR I trial of the PQ Bypass DETOUR System for percutaneous femoropopliteal bypass. J Vasc Surg. nov 2020;72(5):1648-1658.e2.

7.  Kedora J, Hohmann S, Garrett W, Munschaur C, Theune B, Gable D. Randomized comparison of percutaneous Viabahn stent grafts vs prosthetic femoral-popliteal bypass in the treatment of superficial femoral arterial occlusive disease. J Vasc Surg. janv 2007;45(1):10‑6.

Procedure

• Procedure time: 105 min
• Exposure time: 44 min
• Exposure: 190 mGy
• Contrast volume: 100 ml Visipaque 320