Arterial Surgery in Intermittent Claudication

Jonathan Watt, G Gillespie, John G. Pollock, William O. Reid

BMJ · 1974 · 23 citations · 8 references

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The results of a survey of 302 operations in 277 patients during 1959-70 are presented, and an additional 69 operations during 1971 are included in the mortality figures. Operative mortality (1968-71) was 0.9% in 113 aortoiliac operations and nil in 96 femoropopliteal operations.Immediate patency rates on dismissal from hospital exceeded 95%, and the five-year patency rate for aortoiliac operations was just over 70% and for femoropopliteal operations 60%.

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