Joël Constans, Alessandra Bura-Rivière, Adriana Visona, Marianne Brodmann, Pierre Abraham, Dan-Mircea Olinic, Juraj Madaric, Sabine Steiner, Isabelle Quéré, Lucia Mazzolai, Jill Belch, Christian Heiss, Zsolt Pécsvárady, Karel Roztocil, Mary-Paula Colgan, Dragan Vasic, Anders Gottsäter, Evangelos Dimakakos, Ali Chraim, Pavel Poredoš, Patrick H Carpentier, Jean-Claude Wautrecht, Agata Stanek, Vinco Boc
Chronic critical lower limb ischemia (CLI) has been defined as ischemia that endangers the leg. An attempt was made to give a precise definition of CLI, based on clinical and hemodynamic data (Second European Consensus). CLI may be easily defined from a clinical point of view as rest pain of the distal foot or gangrene or ulceration. It is probably useful to add leg ulcers of other origin which do not heal because of severe ischemia, and to consider the impact of frailty on adverse outcome. From a hemodynamic viewpoint there is no consensus and most of the existing classifications are not based upon evidence...
November 19, 2018: VASA. Zeitschrift Für Gefässkrankheiten