A Pretty Simple Technique For PFI-2

RESULTS The case series included 110 patients with a median age of 74 years (IQR = 65�C81 years). The age range was 39�C95 MASP1 years. It included 35 females and 75 males. The median measured AAA size in largest dimension was 7.75cm (IQR=6.45�C9.4cm). Of the subjects, 82 had no prior aortic repair, 21 had prior aortic repair, and 7 were not recorded. Out of 105 patients with a recorded blood pressure, 40 were hypotensive (38.1%), defined as less than 90/60mmHg. Additionally, of 102 patients with a recorded heart rate, 30 were tachycardic (29.4%). Defining acute shock by hypotension or tachycardia, 60 out of the 106 patients that had a blood pressure or heart rate recorded were in shock (56.6% of patients). Median intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay was four days (IQR=1�C8days), with 18 patients having zero ICU days reported and a range from 0�C46 days. Median hospital length of stay was 10 days (IQR=3�C19days), including ten with zero days (early deaths) and a range from 0�C92 days. The ultimate outcome included 33 total deaths, for a mortality rate of 30%. Of the 77 survivors, 39 were discharged to home, 7 were discharged with home health services, 22 were discharged to rehab, 8 were discharged to a skilled nursing facility, and one was transferred to the Veterans Affairs health system. In this case series, 57 patients had PFI-2 cell line EVAR and 48 patients had open repair. The open repairs included three patients who started with EVAR and necessitated conversion to open, or 5% of the cases planned as EVAR. Those who underwent EVAR had smaller aneurysms compared to the open repair group. In the open repair cohort, significantly more units of packed red blood cells (pRBCs) were transfused (p=0.018), and creatinine rose significantly higher (p=0.019) as noted in Table 1. selleck EVAR patients had appreciably lower mortality rates than open repair (p=0.028). Table 1 Comparison of endovascular and open repair. We then compared the 33 patients with rAAA who died with 77 survivors, as seen in Table 2. The rates of prior repair were comparable for those who lived and those who died (p=0.779), but those who died were significantly older (p