Hospital Readmissions Following Endovascular Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia: Associations With Wound Healing, Major Adverse Limb Events, and Mortality

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Reed, Grant W ^a   Raeisi Giglou, Pejman ^a   Kafa, Rami ^a   Malik, Umair ^a   Salehi, Negar ^a   Shishehbor, Mehdi H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical limb ischemia; Major adverse limb events; Mortality; Peripheral artery disease; Readmission; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CRITICAL LIMB ISCHEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDARTERECTOMY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; WOUND HEALING; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHERECTOMY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; HEART FAILURE; ISCHEMIA; LIMB; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STENT; UTILIZATION; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANGIOPLASTY; ATHERECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; ENDARTERECTOMY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT READMISSION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STENTS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 85005962403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.115.003168     Document Type: Article

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