Failure to rescue and mortality after reoperation for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-352

  Mell, Matthew W ^a   Kind, Amy ^b   Bartels, Christie M ^b   Smith, Maureen A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANEURYSM REPAIR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPECIALIZATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 79961138250     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.01.030     Document Type: Article

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