1. Comparative efficacy of pulse-spray thrombolysis and angioplasty versus surgical salvage procedures for treatment of recurrent occlusion of PTFE dialysis access grafts.
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Polak JF, Berger MF, Pagan-Marin H, Aruny JE, and Meyerovitz MF
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Catheters, Indwelling adverse effects, Confidence Intervals, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Graft Occlusion, Vascular etiology, Humans, Life Tables, Male, Middle Aged, Polytetrafluoroethylene adverse effects, Proportional Hazards Models, Recurrence, Renal Dialysis adverse effects, Retrospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Salvage Therapy, Thrombectomy methods, Thrombosis etiology, Vascular Patency, Angioplasty, Balloon, Arteriovenous Shunt, Surgical, Graft Occlusion, Vascular therapy, Thrombolytic Therapy methods, Thrombosis therapy
- Abstract
Purpose: To compare the efficacy of surgery versus pulse-spray thrombolysis and angioplasty in patients with recurrent thrombosis of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) dialysis access grafts., Methods: We analyzed 96 consecutive interventions for thrombosed PTFE dialysis access grafts in 18 patients. Primary patency after thrombolysis and angioplasty (n = 25) was compared with primary patency following thrombectomy alone (n = 50) or thrombectomy followed by graft revision (n = 21) using life-table analysis. A Cox proportional hazards model that accounted for graft age and number of previous interventions was used to generate the relative risk for recurrent occlusion following therapy., Results: Life-table analysis showed that patency after thrombolysis and angioplasty was greater than that following thrombectomy alone (p = 0.02). After accounting for the age of the graft and the number of previous interventions (average six per patient), the relative risk for recurrent occlusion [3.0; 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.5, 6.4] was greater for thrombectomy alone than for thrombolysis/angioplasty [0.6; CI = 0.3, 1.3]. The relative risks of repeat occlusion following thrombolysis/angioplasty [0.6; CI = 0.3, 1.3] and thrombectomy/surgical revision [1.0; CI = 0.5, 1.7] were similar., Conclusion: Outcome data from our retrospective study on recurrent thrombosis of PTFE dialysis access grafts suggest that thrombolysis/angioplasty is superior to thrombectomy alone, and equivalent to thrombectomy/surgical revision.
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- 1998
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