Abstract:Objective: To determine differences in patients undergoing lower extremity vein graft revisions presenting with and without recurrence of preoperative symptoms.Design: Retrospective case-control study of a prospectively maintained database.
Setting: University and veterans' administration hospitalsPatients: Two hundred nineteen lower extremity vein graft revisions were performed in 161 patients from January 1995 to January 2007. Patients were categorized as asymptomatic or symptomatic (recurrence of initial sy… Show more
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