| Response to Letter to the Editor: Effectiveness of remote endarterectomy in superficial femoral artery occlusion | |
| DOI: 10.5606/e-cvsi.2025.9635 | |
| Burak Koçak1, Bülent Mert2, Sinan Güzel3, Kamil Boyacıoğlu2 | |
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1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Niğde Training and Research Hospital, Niğde, Türkiye 2Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Türkiye 3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Dörtyol Public Hospital, Hatay, Türkiye |
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As the authors, we would like to express our
gratitude for your interest in our article.[1] During
the writing of the manuscript and the performance
of the surgical procedures, we were fully aware that
the use of saphenous vein grafts typically yields the
most favorable outcomes. However, the patient who
underwent 24 femoropopliteal bypasses also had a
distal circulation deficiency. We anticipated delayed
and potentially complicated wound healing at the
site of saphenous vein harvest due to this condition.
Consequently, we opted to use prosthetic grafts in
this case. Saphenous vein grafts were employed in patients under the age of 18 and those with a history of trauma, as these patients did not have a history of peripheral arterial disease. However, since our study specifically focused on peripheral arterial disease, these patients were excluded from our analysis. We greatly appreciate your insightful comments, which contribute significantly to the ongoing discussion in the literature. We believe that our study makes a meaningful contribution to the field in its current form.
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