Trends in Rates of Lower Extremity Amputation Among Patients With End-stage Renal Disease Who Receive Dialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who receive dialysis are at high risk of lower extremity amputation. Recent studies indicate decreasing rates of lower extremity amputation in non-ESRD populations, but contemporary data for patients with ESRD who receive dialysis are lacking.

Objectives

To assess rates of lower extremity amputation among patients with ESRD who receive dialysis during a recent 15-year period; to analyze whether those rates differed by age, sex, diabetes, or geographic region; and to determine 1-year mortality rates in this population after lower extremity amputation.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective study of 3 700 902 records obtained from a US national registry of patients with ESRD who receive dialysis asses

SUBMITTER: Franz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6143114 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature