Gastrointestinal complications requering reoperation after aorto-iliac reconstructions

Introduction: Major gastrointestinal complications after aorto-iliac surgery are rare but may be disastrous. Aim: To clear the risk factors and the way of the prevention of these complications. Patients and methods: From 1996 to 2004 we performed 715 aorto-iliac reconstructions. Aneurysm formation was the indication in 118 cases (24 of them was ruptured), and 597 patients were operated for the occlusive disease of the aorto-iliac segment. If the situation allowed, we made the aorto-bifemoral bypasses through a retroperitoneal approach (24 patients). In 14 cases we made the reimplantation of the inferior mesenter…