Mid- and long-term results of the treatment of infrainguinal arterial occlusive disease with precuffed expanded polytetrafluoroethylene grafts compared with vein grafts

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 208-217

  Loh, Shang A ^a   Howell, Brittny S ^a   Rockman, Caron B ^a   Cayne, Neal S ^a   Adelman, Mark A ^a   Gulkarov, Iosif ^a   Veith, Frank J ^a   Maldonado, Thomas S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FEMOROTIBIAL BYPASS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84873404735     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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