Predictors of adverse clinical outcomes after successful infrapopliteal intervention.

OBJECTIVES: To clarify the clinical and angiographical variables related to delayed wound healing, major amputation and death after successful infrapopliteal intervention in critical limb ischemia patients with tissue loss.
BACKGROUND: There is an underappreciation of adverse clinical outcomes after successful infrapopliteal intervention.
METHODS: Stent-assisted infrapopliteal angioplasty was successful in 106 limbs in 85 patients. Successful intervention was defined as revascularization of at least one straight-line flow to the foot.
RESULTS: At 6 months and 1, 2, and 5 years, the repeat intervention-free rates were 55.0, 49.6, 44.4, and 36.1%, respectively; the amputation-free survival rates were 85.7, 68.0, 54.5, and 39.8%, respectively; and the limb salvage rates were 96.0, 92.4, 86.3, and 86.3%, respectively. An infectious wound was an independent predictor of major amputation after successful intervention. The complete wound healing rates were 36.8, 57.5, 67.9, and 73.6% at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, respectively. In stepwise multivariate Cox analysis, diabetes mellitus, an infectious wound, and the pedal arch classification were identified as independent predictors of wound healing. The long-term survival rates at 6 months and 1, 2, and 5 years were 89.5, 73.8, 62.0, and 43.4%, respectively. Stepwise multivariate Cox analysis indentified end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis to be an independent predictor of death.
CONCLUSIONS: An infectious wound, comorbidities of diabetes mellitus and ESRD on hemodialysis and classification of pedal arch can be predictors of adverse clinical outcomes after successful infrapopliteal intervention.