"Needle Bypass" Technique: Percutaneous Anatomical Bypass with Needle Rendezvous for No-Option Peripheral Arterial Disease.
Abstract Background: The complex lesions failed by surgical bypass treatments have yet to be solved even with the latest endovascular devices. We describe a new method of fully percutaneous anatomical bypass, named the “Needle bypass” technique.Case presentation: A 68-year-old male patient was suffered from chronic limb-threatening ischemia due to the surgical removal of right distal common femoral artery to proximal superficial femoral artery and two surgical bypasses, axillary-femoral bypass and iliac-femoral bypass, repeated infection 10 years before. He was referred for peripheral intervention by vascular surgeons due to the surgical higher risk background. Conventional peripheral intervention for the removal of common femoral bifurcation failed. “Needle bypass” technique was successfully performed that the tips of the needles which are inserted bi-directionaly from outside the body are aligned in the body to perform the guidewire externalization through the needles, “Needle rendezvous”, and to deploy scaffolds the complex anatomical lesion including extravascular site. This technique provided the great success with this no-option patient.Conclusions:“Needle bypass” technique is a new effective percutaneous treatment option for no-option patient.