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Umbilical Vein Graft for Lower Limb Ischaemia

Author(s) -

Martin Thomas,

A S Chilvers,

Patrick T. Hall

Publication year - 1982

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - Uncategorized

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107688207500403

Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , umbilical vein , surgery , perioperative , ischemia , vein , lower limb , limb ischemia , cardiology , biochemistry , chemistry , in vitro

Over a two-year period 30 patients in a British district general hospital had human umbilical vein grafts (Meadox Medical) inserted for severe lower limb ischaemia. There were no perioperative deaths but 6 patients subsequently died from their atherosclerosis. The cumulative patency rate at one year was 70%. Five patients suffered immediate graft failure and all required amputation. Failures were due to inappropriate case selection and early technical inexperience with handling the graft.

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