Limb Graft Occlusion Following EVAR: Clinical Pattern, Outcomes and Predictive Factors of Occurrence

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-65

  Cochennec, F ^a   Becquemin, J P ^a   Desgranges, P ^a   Allaire, E ^a   Kobeiter, H ^a   Roudot Thoraval, F ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Complications; Endovascular grafting; Extraanatomic bypass; Graft limb occlusion; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG PAIN; LEG THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 34249817552     PISSN: 10785884     EISSN: 15322165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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