Association of Peripheral Vascular Disease With Complications After Total Ankle Arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite limited evidence, peripheral vascular disease is often cited as a contraindication for total ankle arthroplasty. The purpose of our study was to identify whether peripheral vascular disease in patients undergoing total ankle arthroplasty increased the rate of infection, postoperative irrigation and debridement, or failure of the implant.

Methods

The PearlDiver Database was used to identify Medicare patients who underwent a total ankle arthroplasty from 2005 to 2014. These data were then analyzed for postoperative infections within 90 days, subsequent irrigation and debridements, and failure of total ankle arthroplasties. A diagnosis of preoperative peripheral vascular disease only included those patients who had peripheral vascular disease as an ICD-9 diag

SUBMITTER: Conti MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8696873 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature