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  • Surgical outcomes
  • Public health

Background:

  • Lower limb amputation outcomes are understudied due to small sample sizes.
  • Reamputation is a critical outcome, but its risk factors are not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify risk factors for in-hospital death and reamputation after lower limb amputation.
  • To provide data for improved patient risk assessment and surgical decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a Japanese national inpatient database.
  • Inclusion of 13,774 patients undergoing lower limb amputation.
  • Multivariable logistic regression to identify risk factors for death or reamputation.

Main Results:

  • Overall in-hospital mortality was 10.8%; reamputation rate was 10.1%.
  • Significant risk factors included advanced age, male sex, peripheral vascular disease, insulin use, hemodialysis, and comorbidities.
  • Hemodialysis was the strongest risk factor (OR 2.10).

Conclusions:

  • High in-hospital mortality and reamputation rates highlight patient severity.
  • Identified risk factors can help surgeons predict poor outcomes.
  • Findings support better-informed amputation level decisions.