Author(s)

Magaye Gaye^1,2*, Papa Adama Dieng², Ainina Ndiaye¹, Racky Wade¹, Sidy Diop², Ndeye Fatou Sow², Papa Amath Diagne², Souleymane Diatta², Salmane Ba², Mourad Boufi³, Assane Ndiaye⁴, Amadou Gabriel Ciss², Abdoulaye Ndiaye¹

¹Laboratory of Anatomy and Organogenesis-FMPO-UCAD, Dakar, Senegal.
²Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department-Fann CHNU, Dakar, Senegal.
³Vascular Surgery Department, North Hospital of Marseille, Marseille, France.
⁴Laboratory of Anatomy and Organogenesis-UAS Ziguinchor, Ziguinchor, Senegal.

Several theories point to the influence of the geometry of femoral arterial bifurcation in the formation and evolution of atherosclerosis plaques at the level of common, superficial and deep femoral arteries. The objective of this study is to correlate the degrees of calcifications of the femoral tripod with different morphological parameters, namely conicity, tortuosity, proximal and distal diameters of the arteries and angles between the common femoral artery (CFA) and the superficial femoral artery (SFA) and the profound femoral artery (PFA) and the superficial femoral artery. The results showed that only the tortuosity of the common femoral artery influences the formation of atherosclerosis plaque. These results allow us to predict the degree of calcification of the femoral tripod based on the tortuosity of the common femoral artery.

Tortuosity, Calcification, Atherosclerosis, Femoral Arterial Bifurcation

Gaye, M. , Dieng, P. , Ndiaye, A. , Wade, R. , Diop, S. , Sow, N. , Diagne, P. , Diatta, S. , Ba, S. , Boufi, M. , Ndiaye, A. , Ciss, A. and Ndiaye, A. (2020) The Configuration of the Femoral Arterial Bifurcation’s Influence on Its Atherogenesis. Forensic Medicine and Anatomy Research, 8, 45-53. doi: 10.4236/fmar.2020.82005.