Heparin-bonded ePTFE grafts compared with vein grafts in femoropopliteal and femorocrural bypasses: 1- and 2-year results

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1210-1216

  Daenens, Kim ^a   Schepers, Stijn ^a   Fourneau, Inge ^a   Houthoofd, Sabrina ^a   Nevelsteen, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FEMOROCRURAL BYPASS; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; VEIN GRAFT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 64949165335     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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