Clinical outcomes using aggressive approach to anatomic screening and endovascular revascularization in a veterans affairs population with critical limb ischemia

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-19

  Shah, Alap P ^a   Klein, Andrew J ^b   Sterrett, Andrew ^c   Messenger, John C ^b   Albert, Stephen ^d   Nehler, Mark R ^b   Hiatt, William R ^a,c   Casserly, Ivan P ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Denver Veteran Administration Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Critical limb ischemia; Endovascular revascularization; Limb salvage; Peripheral arterial disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN;

AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURVIVAL; VETERAN; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 68949201047     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21974     Document Type: Article

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