Bypass surgery for chronic lower limb ischaemia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Antoniou, George A ^a   Georgiadis, George S ^b   Antoniou, Stavros A ^c   Makar, Ragai R ^d   Smout, Jonathan D ^d   Torella, Francesco ^d  

^a ROYAL OLDHAM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^d ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BYPASS SURGERY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CINAHL; CLAUDICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA EXTRACTION; EMBASE; ENDARTERECTOMY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG ISCHEMIA; LERICHE SYNDROME; LIMB AMPUTATION; MEDLINE; MORTALITY RATE; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULAR PATENCY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AMPUTATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; ISCHEMIA; LEG; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULARIZATION;

AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 85017119902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002000.pub3     Document Type: Review

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