External validation of CLI Frailty Index and assessment of predictive value of modified CLI Frailty Index for patients with critical limb ischemia undergoing infrainguinal revascularization.

CONCLUSIONS: Both the CLI Frailty and the modified CLI Frailty Indexes were useful in predicting the two-year overall survival of patients with CLI after infrainguinal revascularization. Although the measurement of skeletal muscle mass using computed tomography may accurately predict two-year overall survival, SMI prediction is effective for patients with CLI who did not undergo preoperative CT.
PMID: 30890090 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vascular - March 18, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Morisaki K, Furuyama T, Matsubara Y, Inoue K, Kurose S, Yoshino S, Nakayama K, Yamashita S, Yoshiya K, Yoshiga R, Maehara Y Tags: Vascular Source Type: research