Can Sural Fasciocutaneous Flaps Be Effective in Patients Older Than 65?

CONCLUSIONS: In this small series, we found fewer complications than have been observed in prior studies, despite our series consisting solely of higher-risk, older patients. We believe this may have been attributable to the period of delay before placing the flap, which has been previously associated with higher flap survival and which allows for an extra recipient-site débridement. We believe this procedure can be performed by appropriately trained orthopaedic surgeons because it does not need microsurgery. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic study. PMID: 31513016 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research