The long-term patency rates of these are substantially less than an aortobifemoral bypass, with reported primary patency rates at 5 years of 35% to 70% for an axillary-femoral bypass and 60% to 70 ...

Internal Femoral-Axillary Bypass Via 6F femoral artery sheath and using a JR4 guiding catheter, a 0.038-in guidewire (Terumo Glidewire) is advanced into the ipsilateral brachial artery.

Blaisdell and Hall, 9 in another report, describe the successful use of a unilateral axillary to femoral-artery bypass graft in 2 cases of aortoiliac sepsis.

Whenever there is a compromised femoral artery, "then the axillary artery, which is rarely involved with atherosclerosis, makes for the most optimal alternative access.