Female gender and oral anticoagulants are associated with wound complications in lower extremity vein bypass: An analysis of 1404 operations for critical limb ischemia

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Nguyen, Louis L ^a   Brahmanandam, Soma ^a   Bandyk, Dennis F ^a   Belkin, Michael ^a   Clowes, Alexander W ^a   Moneta, Gregory L ^a   Conte, Michael S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; EDIFOLIGIDE;

AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HAZARD RATIO; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFRAINGUINAL BYPASS SURGERY; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY VEIN BYPASS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN BYPASS; WOUND COMPLICATION;

EID: 37249073420     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.07.053     Document Type: Article

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