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Aerospace Medicine/methods , Aviation/standards , Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis , Pilots/statistics & numerical data , Accidents, Aviation/prevention & control , Cardiac Surgical Procedures , Cardiovascular Diseases/prevention & control , Humans , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Occupational Diseases/prevention & control , Retirement , Safety , Surgical Clearance/standardsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To investigate if the body mass index (BMI) differs between different groups of patients (incomplete ligation also defined as technical error, neo-revascularisation, uncertain and mixed) in recurrent same site inguinal varices after surgery (REVAS). METHODS: During a six and half year time span, we retrospectively analysed 203 consecutive procedures in 153 patients undergoing recurrent same site vein surgery in the groin. Individual BMI was calculated and compared within the different REVAS nature of the source groups. RESULTS: The median BMI was 28 for patients undergoing recurrent vein surgery in the groin with no relevant difference in BMI between the different source groups (confidence interval for the difference of adjusted group means equals [-1.5, 2.6]). CONCLUSIONS: There is no relevant difference in BMI between the two commonest REVAS groups. This may be due to small sample size, but confidence limits for difference of.
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Body Mass Index , Groin/blood supply , Varicose Veins/surgery , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Linear Models , Male , Middle Aged , Recurrence , Retrospective StudiesSubject(s)
Aorta, Thoracic/transplantation , Aortic Coarctation/surgery , Aged , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Time FactorsABSTRACT
A variety of randomized, controlled trials comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) found similar results in mortality but significant differences in number of reinterventions in favor of CABG. This work gives an overview about the relevance and limitations of these studies in line with newly published large scale observational studies, which reveal significantly lower mortality-rates in CABG patients. Emphasis is placed on the special situation in the diabetic patient.