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JOURNAL ARTICLE
META-ANALYSIS
REVIEW
Thigh arteriovenous grafts. Quantitative comparison with alternative options: A meta-analysis.
Journal of Vascular Access 2018 September
Thigh arteriovenous grafts are required in a number of patients with exhausted upper extremity veins and comprise 1%-5% of the total access procedures performed. Alternative autogenous lower extremity options are the rarely used sapheno-tibial arteriovenous fistulae, the saphenous vein transpositions, and the femoral vein transpositions. The latter have proven to be the most durable lower limb access procedures, with low infection rates and their primary patency rates ranged from 74% up to 87% at 2 years. Synthetic thigh grafts are suitable for patients who are not good candidates for any upper limb or any autogenous lower limb access and their secondary patency rates ranged from 54% up to 83% at 2 years. Thigh grafts often get infected and their average weighed infection rate in 920 such grafts included in eight large series was 22.9%. A literature search was performed to evaluate thigh grafts compared with alternative options using meta-analysis. Lower limb accesses were found superior compared to HeRO® device regarding 1-year primary failure rate (odds ratio = 0.28, confidence interval = 0.09-0.88, p = 0.03) and additionally autogenous lower limb accesses were found superior compared to thigh grafts regarding the 1-year primary failure rate (odds ratio = 6.54, confidence interval = 2.29-18.72, p = 0.0005).
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