Indications for intervention
Reason for intervention | Limb (n=294) |
---|---|
Side | |
Right | 153 (52.0) |
Left | 141 (48.0) |
Prior interventions | |
Angioplasty (ipsilateral) | 111 (37.8) |
Amputations | |
Minor (leg, foot, toe) | 66 (22.4) |
Major contralateral (AKA, BKA) | 23 (7.8) |
Femoral endarterectomy | 6 (2.0) |
Urgency | |
Urgent | 209 (71.1) |
Elective | 75 (25.5) |
Emergency | 10 (3.4) |
Rutherford classification | |
6 (necrotic ulcer) | 192 (65.3) |
5 (non-healing amputation) | 40 (13.6) |
4 (ischemic rest pain) | 26 (8.8) |
3 (claudication) | 32 (10.9) |
0 (asymptomatic) | 4 (1.4) |
Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection score | 3.02±1.98 |
Toe pressure, mmHg | 43.5±26.9 |
Risk of amputationa | |
1 (very low risk) | 104 (35.4) |
2 (low risk) | 75 (25.5) |
3 (moderate risk) | 46 (15.6) |
4 (high risk) | 69 (23.5) |
Multi-level disease | 194 (66.0) |
FP+tibial | 172 (58.5) |
Iliac+FP | 14 (4.8) |
Iliac+FP+tibial | 8 (2.7) |
Values are presented as number (%) or mean±standard deviation.
AKA, above-the-knee; BKA, below-the-knee; FP, femoral-popliteal.
aRisk of amputation according to Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection category derived from the article of Mills et al. (J Vasc Surg 2014;59:220-234.e1-2) [4].