Sentence examples for index procedures from inspiring English sources

When compared to index procedures, increased recurrence rates and poorer outcomes can be expected after revision surgery [20, 49].

Subjects were evaluated for rates of death, myocardial infarction, and stent thrombosis at 4 years from their index procedures.

Corrective surgical procedures aimed at improving ASD can be equally challenging, and commonly require multiple index procedures and potential revisions before definitive management.

We present a report of 2 cases of trunnion fractures of fully porous-coated femoral stems (AML A Plus, DePuy International, Leeds, England), which had been implanted for 6 and 7 years after the index procedures.

Objectives: femorodistal bypass operation is one of three index procedures for vascular training in the U.K. Our aim is to determine the suitability of femorodistal bypass to be considered as an index procedure in the era of increasing utilisation of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).

The TactiCath ablation catheter was used for ablation during index procedures.

Procedural complications following the index procedure included two femoral venous haematomas, resolved with conservative management and one pseudo-aneurysm not requiring surgical intervention.

Nineteen of 22 fractures (86%) healed after the index procedure.

The index procedure chosen was a laparoscopic appendectomy.

The fixator was removed 8 weeks after the index procedure as an outpatient procedure.

Table 3 describes the surgical procedures that the women had undergone since the index procedure.