TY - JOUR ID - TI - BRACHIAL ARTERY INJURYANALYSIS OF 80 CASE AU - Dr. Usama kadhum kredi, FICMS. PY - 2009 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 175 EP - 183 JO - KUFA MEDICAL JOURNAL مجلة الكوفة الطبية SN - 1993517X 27094462 AB - Brachial artery injury is a common vascular injury whether it's caused by penetrating, blunt or iatrogenic injuries .This is a retro and prospective study of 80 patients admitted at Al-Diwaniya Teaching Hospital from 1st April , 2004 to 30th April, 2007 .Our aim behind this study is to focus on the management and it's sequelae .The most common mechanism of injury was bullet injury (50%) , followed by blunt (27.5%) , stab wounds (16.25%) , iatrogenic factors (5%) and rarely by thermal injury .The technique of repair was by venous graft in the majority of cases (60%) and we needed arteriorraphy in (22.5%) , end to end anastomosis in (15%) and ligation in (2.5%) .There was no need for fasciotomy and all its associated injured veins were ligated .Although our results were good we had mortality (5%) due to associated injuries , and morbidity with joint stiffness represents a problem as a result of delayed physiotherapy post repair .

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