Bypasses to Tibial Vessels Using Polytetrafluoroethylene as the Solo Conduit in a Predominantly Diabetic Population

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-63

  Hamdan, Allen D ^a   Rayan, Sunil S ^b   Hook, Shannon C ^b   Campbell, David R ^b   Akbari, Cameron M ^b   Logerfo, Frank W ^b   Pomposelli, Frank B ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School ^*

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TIBIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN GRAFT; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; BYPASS SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; POLITEF IMPLANT; REVIEW; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIBIAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0036170761     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440203600110     Document Type: Article

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