TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Epidemiology of surgically treated patient in road traffic accident with lower extremity vascular injury from a single centre in Kelantan
JO  - Medical journal of Malaysia
A1  - Koh, S. C.
A1  - Wan Faisham Nu'man, W. I.
A1  - Siti Fatimah, N. M. J.
A1  - Wan Azman, W. S.
A1  - Mohammad, P.
A1  - Arman Zaharil, M. S.
SP  - 292
EP  - 294
VL  - 75
IS  - 3
N2  - INTRODUCTION: Lower extremity vascular injury can result in either temporary or permanent disability.     METHODS: This is a clinical audit involving all patients admitted to our institution from January 2008 to June 2018 of those who had undergone revascularization surgery for lower limb trauma.     RESULTS: Fifty-nine patients were in this study with a mean age of 28.1 years. Most of the patients were motorcyclist involved in road traffic accidents with cars (n=30, 50.8%). The popliteal artery was most commonly seen injury (n=41, 69.5%). The mean duration of ischaemia was 14.1 hours. The limb salvage rate was 89.8%.     CONCLUSION: Lower extremity vascular injury caused by RTA treated in our institution predominantly involved young patients aged between 18-30 years associated with long bone fractures causing contusion and thrombosis of the popliteal artery.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0300-5283
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -