Identifying the incidence of and risk factors for reamputation among patients who underwent foot amputation

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1120-1126

  Kono, Yuriko ^a   Muder, Robert R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; GANGRENE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC FOOT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOREFOOT, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84867644616     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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