Perioperative and long-term morbidity and mortality after above-knee and below-knee amputations in diabetics and nondiabetics

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1241-1247

  Subramaniam, Balachundhar ^a,b   Pomposelli, Frank ^a,b   Talmor, Daniel ^a,b   Park, Kyung W ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ADULT; AGED; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; DEATH; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 17744379207     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000147705.94738.31     Document Type: Review

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