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[Arterial thrombosis of the lower limb in patients over 80 years of age. Belgian multicentric experience concerning 802 patients].
This report concerns a joint study of fourteen centres about the treatment of arterial occlusion of the low extremity. Eight hundred and two patients older than 80 years have been studied during a period from 1 to 27 years. The operative mortality was 25.2%. There was no significant difference in mortality between emergency cases and those patients who were operated under elective conditions. Leg amputations are followed by a significant higher mortality than more conservative surgery such as arterial by-pass, sympathectomy or embolectomy. The most frequent cause of death was from cardiopulmonar origin (57%). The postoperative morbidity of cardiac, pulmonary, urinary or infectious origin was frequent (50%). Surgical complications in the true sence of the word are quite rare and their frequency is limited to 7%. The conclusion of this study is that conservative surgery such as reascularisation or sympathectomy is, whenever possible, to be preferred over amputation not only because of their lower mortality (13 to 19%) but also since they permit better revalidation of these elderly patients.
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