Success of Carotid Endarterectomy in Veterans: High Medical Risk Does Not Equate with High Surgical Risk

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 219-226

  Fitzgerald, Tamara N ^a   Popp, Cathy ^a   Federman, Daniel G ^a   Dardik, Alan ^a  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; VETERAN;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; CONNECTICUT; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VETERANS;

EID: 48949116088     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.02.033     Document Type: Article

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