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Table 4 Comparison of AAST subgroup demographics (2018 revision) and outcomes

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

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Age (mean, SD)

ISS (median, range)

Male gender (number, percentage)

Vascular injury at CT (number, percentage)

Number of embolizations

Proximal embolization (number, percentage)

Time to embolization (median, range)

Complications (number, percentage)

Splenectomy (number, percentage)

Grade III

44 (19.4)*

22 (9–59)*

38 (93%)**

N/Aa

41

33 (87%)*

0 (0–18)*

0 (0%)*

0 (0%)*

Grade IV

36 (17.0)**

22 (4–57)*

80 (73%)*

48 (44%)*

109

85 (78%)*

0 (0–21)*

6 (5.5%)*

2 (1.8%)*

Grade V

43 (19.7)*

22 (5–66)*

67 (82%)*

74 (90%)**

82

58 (71%)*

0 (0–28)*

7 (8.5%)*

5 (8.5%)*

  1. ISS injury severity score
  2. AAST American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
  3. *p > 0.05
  4. **p < 0.05
  5. avascular injury is not possible with grade III classification