Surgical treatment of complicated traumatic aneurysm and arteriovenous fistula.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the surgical methods and the outcome of management for traumatic arterial aneurysm (TAA) and traumatic arteriovenous fistula (TAVF).


METHODS
A total of 121 patients with TAA or TAVF were treated by surgery. Clinical, operative and postoperative data were collected and analyzed retrospectively.


RESULTS
The surgical techniques included aneurysmectomy and arterial end-to-end anastomosis or vascular grafting or artery ligation, aneurysm ligation and bypass, vascular repair, fistula excision and vascular ligation or vascular grafting or repair and so on. One patient died (0.83%). The follow-up rates of TAA and TAVF were 65.7% and 60% respectively.


CONCLUSIONS
Complicated TAA and TAVF in different sites should be treated with different methods.
Qiao
Zheng-rong
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Research Laboratory of Vascular Surgery, Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, Chongqing 400016, China. qiaozhengrong@hotmail.com
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D005121:Extremities / Q000293:injuries; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery