Is balloon angioplasty of peri-anastomotic stenoses of failing peripheral arterial bypasses worthwhile?

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 346-351

  Eisenberg, Joshua A ^a   Calligaro, Keith D ^a,b   Kolakowski, Steven ^a   Doerr, Kevin J ^a   Bennett, Sandy ^a   Murtha, Kathy ^a   Dougherty, Matthew J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial bypass revision; Balloon angioplasty; Failing graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 69449087855     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538574409336479     Document Type: Article

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