@article{ab8d2039445c48bb82785c3163fe4f70,
title = "Does patency after a vein collar and PTFE-bypass depend on sex and age?: Re-analysis of a randomised trial",
abstract = "Randomized studies evaluating the effect of a vein collar at the distal anastomosis of PTFE-grafts show conflicting results. The study of the Joint Vascular Research Group (JVRG) of UK found improved primary patency while the Scandinavian Miller Collar Study (SCAMICOS) found neither any effect on patency nor on limb salvage after bypass to below-knee arteries. However, the Scandinavian patients were a decade older and predominately female compared to the British patients. Can this explain the conflicting result?",
keywords = "Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Blood Vessel Prosthesis, Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation, Chi-Square Distribution, Female, Graft Occlusion, Vascular, Humans, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Lower Extremity, Male, Middle Aged, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Proportional Hazards Models, Prosthesis Design, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Smoking, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Vascular Patency, Veins",
author = "F Lundgren and SCAMICOS and Schroeder, {Torben Veith}",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
volume = "31",
pages = "156--62",
journal = "International Angiology",
issn = "0392-9590",
publisher = "Edizioni/Minerva Medica",
number = "2",
}