A 5-Year Follow-up Study to Assess Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Diabetes Undergoing Lower Limb Angiography for Significant Peripheral Artery Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The optimal management for patients with diabetes and peripheral vascular disease-intermittent claudication or critical limb ischemia (CLI)-remains undetermined.

Methods

In a single-center retrospective analysis, we compared 1- and 5-year amputation-free survival rates in patients undergoing angiography subsequently treated with medical therapy or revascularization.

Results

78 patients were included, 56 with CLI (mean age 77 years); 22 with claudication (mean age 75 years). Of the CLI cohort, 30 patients were medically treated. Their 1-year amputation-free survival rate was similar to those treated with revascularization (46.7% versus 50.0%, respectively). 8 patients in the claudicant cohort were treated conservatively. The 1-year amputation-free survival

SUBMITTER: Gu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4674466 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature