Endovascular interventions may save limbs in elderly subjects with severe lower extremity arterial disease
Min-I SU
Cheng-Wei LIU
摘要：Endovascular intervention, such as percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), improves claudication and saves limbs of patients with severe lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD).[1] A previous study showed that the mortality among octogenarians was as high as 29％ regardless of the type of intervention and that revascularization was associated with high periprocedural mortality.[2] A previous study had already shown that reconstructive surgery for elderly individuals over 80 years old resulted in a significantly higher mortality rate than that for patients between 70 and 80 years old, whereas endovascular intervention and primarily conservative treatment had comparable prognoses.
机标关键词：savewitharterialdiseaseelderlyendovascularextremityinterventions
论文发表日期：2021-11-28
页数：11( 957-967 )