Journal of hospital Pula, Vol. 5 No. 5, 2008.
Original scientific paper
PREDICTORS OF THE PASSABILITY DURATION OF FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASSES
Igor Mirković
Davor Pikot
Irenko Srdoč
Renato Vidos
Andrej Angelini
Filip Rozman
Abstract
The aim of this study was to define predictors of the passability duration of femoropopliteal bypasses on the basis of both own results and medical literature. Documentation studies and comparative methods were used in the study. The subjects are patients of the Pula General hospital, operated in the Surgical ward in the period between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 2001. Predictors of the passability duration of femoropopliteal bypasses was determined by examination of subjects and the comparison to results found in literature. They can be divided into three groups: predictors of fast bypass occlusion, predictors of longer bypass passability, predictors that do not affect the bypass function. Independent predictors of larger amputations were determined separately. The duration of openness of femoropopliteal bypasses applied to patients suffering from occlusive diseases of the arteries in the femoropopliteal segment can be determined based on the preoperatively established state of the drainage path on lower limbs, on the grade of circulatory insufficiency at the moment of surgery, on
the type of femoropoliteal bypass (either by great saphenous vein or by artificial bypass) as well as based on other factors.
Keywords
aterosclerois; femoropopliteal by-pass; predictors of passability
Hrčak ID:
32112
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2008.
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