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Table 1 Patient and procedure demographics

From: SPLEnic salvage and complications after splenic artery EmbolizatioN for blunt abdomINal trauma: the SPLEEN-IN study

Number of embolizations

232

Age (mean, SD)

40 (18.7)

Male gender (number, percentage)

185 (80.1%)

Time to embolization after injury in days (median, range)

0 (0–28)

AASTa injury grade (median, range)

4 (3–5)

Evidence of vascular injury at CT (number, percentage)

137 (59.0%)

Evidence of vascular injury at embolization (number, percentage)

184 (79.3%)

Proximal embolization (number, percentage)

176 (75.9%)

Use of pushable coils (number, percentage)

197 (84.9%)

Injury severity score (median, range)

22 (4–66)

Complications (number, percentage)

13 (5.6%)

Time to complication in days (median, range)

2.1 (0–7)

Splenectomy after embolization (number, percentage)

7 (3.0%)

Time to splenectomy (median, range)

4 (0–17)

  1. aAAST American Association for the Surgery of Trauma