The First International Scientific Teleconference
"Cardiovascular Surgery and Angiology - 2003"
Melnikov M.V., Marinkin V.I., Storozhev K.M.
EMBOLIC EVENTS OF THE AORTA AND MAJOR LIMB ARTERIES, OUTCOMES AND COMPLICATIONS
St. Petersburg State Medical Academy named after I.I.Mechnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The experience of treatment 2610 patients with embolisms of aorta bifurcation and main arteries of extremities has been summarized. The prognosis of effects of treatment and major complications during postoperative period has been carried out by means of the original package of computer programs. High percent of predicted reliability (more than 90 %) has allowed to define the degree of influence of some signs (risk factors) on the outcome of disease. The account of these risk factors gives a substantial opportunity to optimize an individual tactics of therapy. It is possible to consider a similar approach as an effective direction in improvement of the effects of surgical treatment of patients with arterial embolic diseases.
Key words: embolisms of aorta and arteries of extremities, prediction
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