Validation of the Wound, Ischemia, foot Infection (WIfI) classification system in nondiabetic patients treated by endovascular means for critical limb ischemia

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 95-103

  Beropoulis, Efthymios ^a   Stavroulakis, Konstantinos ^a   Schwindt, Arne ^a   Stachmann, Arne ^a   Torsello, Giovanni ^a   Bisdas, Theodosios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION FREE SURVIVAL; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB AMPUTATION; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR LESION; WOUND; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AMPUTATION; CLASSIFICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER LIMB; MALE; MORTALITY; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84961150300     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2016.01.040     Document Type: Article

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