Limb salvage in the elderly.
Sixty-eight lower extremity bypass procedures for severe lower limb ischemia were undertaken on 53 patients of 75 years of age and over. The operative mortality was 4.4%. At two years cumulative limb salvage, patient survival, graft patency and survival with an intact limb were 77%, 72%, 44%, and 56%, respectively. Of all patients who died, 66% had an intact limb at the time of death. Based on these results we continue to offer reconstructive surgery to elderly patients.
McLoughlin
R F
RF
Department of Surgery, University College, Cork, Ireland.
Fitzgerald
L P
LP
O'Donnell
J A
JA
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000209:etiology; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000601:surgery*; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene