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Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Surg. 2014 Mar 18;60(1):160–169. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.01.070

Table 5.

Fifty Operative procedures classified according to preoperative knowledge of vEDS diagnosis

N=50 (%)	Diagnosis Known N=29	Diagnosis not known N=21	P^*
Family History	13 (44.8)	9 (42.9)	.890
Haploinsufficiency Mutation	6 (20.7)	7 (33.3)	.314
Open Surgical Repair	14 (48.3)	17 (81.0)	.019
Endovascular Procedures	15 (51.7)	4 (19.0)	.019
Emergent Repairs	12 (41.3)	17 (80.9)	.005
Intraoperative Death	0	3 (14.2)	.036
Post-operative complications	4 (13.7)	13 (61.9)	<.001

P value calculated using the Pearson Chi-square test for categorical data