Vascular evaluation and long-term results of distal bypass surgery in patients with diabetes.
The objective of the US Health Department and the American Diabetes Association is to reduce the major amputation rate in diabetics by 40% by the year 2000. It is the goal of this article to help the reader define the role of proper diagnosis and management of vascular disease to meet this challenge.
Gibbons
G W
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D001158:Arteries / Q000601:surgery; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D017719:Diabetic Foot / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005528:Foot / Q000098:blood supply*; D016523:Foot Ulcer / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008866:Microsurgery; D012039:Regional Blood Flow / Q000502:physiology