High mortality risks after major lower extremity amputation in Medicare patients with peripheral artery disease

American Heart Journal

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Schuyler Jones, W ^a   Patel, Manesh R ^a   Dai, David ^a   Vemulapalli, Sreekanth ^a   Subherwal, Sumeet ^a   Stafford, Judith ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KNEE AMPUTATION; LEG AMPUTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876816490     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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