Peripheral Artery Disease Among Vein Stent Patients

Abstract

including penetrating versus blunt mechanism (P ¼ .18), specialty performing bypass (P ¼ .98), interposition bypass (P ¼ .64), associated orthopedic injury (P ¼ .35), Injury Severity Score (P ¼ .31), or conduit type (P ¼ .34) (Table ). The composite outcome was reached in only 7 of 31 patients. Follow-up demonstrates 90% survival at 20 months (Figs 1 and 2).Conclusions: Upper extremity bypass for traumatic arterial injury has a low composite end point. While this may be an effect of sample size, it appears that these patients do well overall. These data may be useful for sample size calculations studies.