摘要
one of the most feared complications in vascular surgery is the infection of synthetic graft. it affects 2% of conventional surgery procedures and about 0.3 to 6% of endovascular procedures. we report the case of a patient treated for abdominal aortic aneurysm with both methods; after six years, this patient had the prosthesis removed because of infection. bilateral superficial femoral vein were used as substitute with success.