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Limb salvage in the elderly
R F McLoughlin1, L P Fitzgerald, J A O'Donnell
1Department of Surgery, University College, Cork, Ireland.
Annals of Vascular Surgery
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Sixty-eight lower extremity bypass procedures for severe lower limb ischemia were undertaken on 53 patients of 75 years of age and over. The operative mortality was 4.4%. At two years cumulative limb salvage, patient survival, graft patency and survival with an intact limb were 77%, 72%, 44%, and 56%, respectively. Of all patients who died, 66% had an intact limb at the time of death. Based on these results we continue to offer reconstructive surgery to elderly patients.