People in their 50s with severe peripheral artery disease or PAD may be more likely than people in their 80s to undergo leg amputation one to five years after emergency surgery to restore blood flow to the lower limbs, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation.
American Heart AssociationJul 22 2024 People in their 50s with severe peripheral artery disease or PAD may be more likely than people in their 80s to undergo leg amputation one to five years after emergency surgery to restore blood flow to the lower limbs, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal Circulation.
People with severe forms of PAD requiring urgent surgery tend to have extremely poor disease progress. They are at high risk of limb loss and all-cause death following the initial surgery. Our primary finding is different from the traditional belief that older people were at an increased risk of major amputation. Our study, interestingly, shows the opposite relationship."
Two-thirds of participants in the data review had undergone surgery to restore blood flow during an elective hospital admission, while the remainder had non-elective surgery during an emergency hospital admission. The analysis noted that:
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