Midterm results from a multicenter registry on the treatment of infrainguinal critical limb ischemia using a heparin-bonded ePTFE graft

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1167-1177.e1

  Pulli, Raffaele ^a   Dorigo, Walter ^a   Castelli, Patrizio ^b   Dorrucci, Vittorio ^c   Ferilli, Fiore ^d   De Blasis, Giovanni ^e   Monaca, Vincenzo ^f   Vecchiati, Enrico ^g   Pratesi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

^d S MARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e SS Filippo e Nicola Hospital   (Italy)

^f VE Ferrarotto S Bambino Hospital   (Italy)

^g S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; POLITEF;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ITALY; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LEG ULCER; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB SALVAGE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TIBIAL ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INGUINAL CANAL; ISCHEMIA; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; ISCHEMIA; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77952316529     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.12.042     Document Type: Article

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