Long-term functional outcomes after traumatic popliteal artery injury: A 20-year experience

CONCLUSION Increasing age, lower extremity fracture, and prolonged ischemic time worsened long-term functional outcomes. Functional outcome did not improve over time, suggesting that maximal recovery may be achieved within the first 2 years postinjury. Thus, early and effective revascularization remains the only potentially modifiable risk factor for improving functional outcomes following TPAI. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prognostic, level III.
Source: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - Category: Surgery Tags: AAST 2019 PODIUM PAPERS Source Type: research