title: Extremity revascularization: a decade of experience.
abstract: Operative management provides low risk palliation for symptomatic occlusive disease of the leg. Survival is adversely affected by associated conditions. The rate of limb salvage was 70 per cent at 2 years in patients with gangrene. Bypass grafting did not increase the risk of subsequent amputation (mortality 11 per cent), and therefore primary amputation should be avoided.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000792:Angiography; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000601:surgery; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011150:Popliteal Artery / Q000601:surgery; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous