Figure 1

(A) Zinc levels of all patients (n = 33) in correlation with the age before endovascular/surgical intervention are shown. The dashed lines show commonly used upper (70 µg/dl)/lower (150 µg/dl) standard values for the zinc level. (B) The zinc levels of patients that survived endovascular/surgical intervention and were released from the hospital (n = 27) were compared to patients that died during the hospital stay (n = 6). Zinc level was measured before endovascular/surgical intervention. Shown is the mean and SD. Significance was determined using Student's t-test assuming significance if *p < 0.05.