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MEDICOLEGAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR INJURIES: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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• Forensic Medicine

Abstract

Background: Vascular trauma is one of the devastating types of injuries whether accidental or intentional. Despite this fact, there is an obvious deficiency in the educational sessions for vascular surgeons concerning the appropriate medicolegal dealing with such injuries. Aim: To report the experience of vascular limb trauma highlighting the medicolegal and clinical findings. Methods: A 5-years retrospective study with a follow up period of 1.5 years studying the data of peripheral vascular injuries at three specialized trauma centers with special emphasize on the cause, the type, and the outcome of this trauma in relation to sociodemographic factors. Obtained data were statistically analyzed using the SPSS computer program (version 23). Results: This study included 350 trauma patients (287 males and 63 females) who presented with peripheral vascular injuries. The patients' age ranged from < 8 years to >50 years. There was a significant association between the age and the circumstances of trauma. The most encountered causative mechanisms were traffic accidents (45.7%) and firearms (21.7%). There was no significant association between outcome and age (p = 0.114) or circumstances of trauma (p = 0.208). There was a highly significant association between the outcome and the duration of hospital stay (p < 0.001). Lower limb injuries were higher in frequency than upper limb injuries (n = 286 and 123) respectively. Upper and lower limbs arterial injuries had a significantly higher frequency rate than the venous injuries. Ulnar artery and brachial vein injuries were the most frequently encountered upper limb arterial and venous trauma, while the femoral artery and the deep femoral vein were the most commonly affected lower limb vessels. Bone injuries were the most frequently accompanying injuries. (44.6% of total cases). Conclusion: As any sort of injury may possess medical and lawful perspectives, medicolegal investigations have to take the crown's position when studying trauma cases, going hand in hand with the clinical aspect.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2019.6483.1036

Keywords

Peripheral vascular trauma, Medicolegal aspects, Traffic accidents

Authors

First Name

Aboelyazid

Last Name

Fouad

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Affiliation

1 Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt. 2 Division of Forensic Medicine, Department of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.

Email

draboyazid@yahoo.com

City

Al-Ahsa

Orcid

0000-0002-8743-1852

First Name

AHMED

Last Name

MOUSA

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Vascular Surgery, Al-Hussain University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine for Males, Al-Azhar university, Cairo, Egypt. Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.

Email

isvascular@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-0840-4080

First Name

Ossama

Last Name

Zakaria

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Division Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.

Email

ossamaz2004@yahoo.com

City

Al-Ahsa

Orcid

0000-0002-4644-0138

First Name

Hazem

Last Name

Zakaria

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of Imam Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Faisal, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Email

hazakaria@yahoo.com

City

Damma

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Volume

19

Article Issue

1

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4888

Issue Date

2019-03-01

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2018-12-03

Publish Date

2019-03-01

Page Start

145

Page End

161

Print ISSN

1687-0875

Online ISSN

2535-1915

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429

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Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023