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Aortoiliac SurgeryInfluence of Clinical Factors on Results
Manuel R. Gomes, MD;
Philip E. Bernatz, MD;
John L. Juergens, MD
AMA Arch Surg. 1967;95(3):387-394.
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SURGICAL advice for patients with aortoiliac occlusive disease is complicated by the fact that indications for operation may be based solely on a degree of decreased exercise tolerance. Some authors have referred to such an indication as economically disabling intermittent claudication or claudication producing occupational handicap.1,2 We agree with the rationale of relating the need for operation to economic survival; but we also have faced an intense desire for improved exercise tolerance for other than economic reasons by members of this affluent society, which is presumed to move almost exclusively on wheels. For example, to many patients an impaired exercise tolerance as related to leisure-time activities is unacceptable and justifies taking reasonable surgical risks to obtain relief. This has stimulated us to seek more precise knowledge of the factors that contribute to the risks of such surgery.
In our series as well as in those of others, patients with
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Author Affiliations
Rochester, Minn
From the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Section of Surgery and Section of Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Rochester, Minn
Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 15, 1967.
Read before the 24th annual meeting of the Central Surgical Association, Pittsburgh, Feb 23, 1967.
Reprint requests to Section of Publications, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minn 55901.
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