Intercondylar Route of Prosthetic Infragenicular Femoropopliteal Bypass Has Better Primary, Assisted, and Secondary Patency but Not Limb Salvage Rate Compared to the Medial Route

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

Characteristics	Intercondylar bypass; Group A	Medial bypass; Group B	value	Test
Number of patients	52	41
Male gender	38	32	0.63	-test
Age (years)	68 ± 8	69 ± 9	0.73	-test
Coronary artery disease	2	15	0.67	-test
Angina pectoris	6	3	0.73	-test
Myocardial infarction	17	10	0.49	-test
CABG	12	8	0.80	-test
Atrial fibrillation	7	4	0.75	-test
Stroke	10	8	1.0	-test
Diabetes	22	18	1.0	-test
Hypertension	44	33	0.78	-test
Hyperlipidemia	37	35	0.14	-test
Renal insufficiency	10	3	0.14	-test
Smoker or ex-smoker	42	37	0.25	-test
BMI	25.8 ± 3.0	27.5 ± 3.9	0.047	-test
Preoperative medication
Antiplatelet therapy	41	34	0.79	-test
Anticoagulation	18	14	1.0	-test
Statin	34	30	0.50	-test
Fontaine classification			0.20	MW
IIB	4	5
III	21	20
IV	27	16
TASC classification			0.43	MW
C	1	2
D	51	39

CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; MW: Mann-Whitney test.