Lower Limb Revascularization with a New Bioactive Prosthetic Graft: Early and Late Results

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-87

  Dorigo, Walter ^a   Di Carlo, Francesca ^a   Troisi, Nicola ^a   Pratesi, Giovanni ^a   Innocenti, Alessandro Alessi ^a   Pulli, Raffaele ^a   Pratesi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; FEMALE; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 37749055008     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2007.07.025     Document Type: Article

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