Does gender influence the patency of infrainguinal bypass grafts?

Angiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-282

  Alpagut, Ufuk ^a   Ugurlucan, Murat ^a,d   Banach, Maciej ^b   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^c   Dayioglu, Enver ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Lodz University Medical Faculty   (Poland)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal bypass; Gender; Infrainguinal bypass; Occlusive disease; Patency; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 44849123377     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319708316898     Document Type: Article

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