Increasing evidence supports an endovascular first approach to patients with critical limb ischemia. Endovascular procedures offer patients out patient angiosome targeted revascularization with lower morbidity and mortality and equivalent or better limb salvage.
Professional burnout is characterized by cynical behavior, exhaustion, lack of enthusiasm, and loss of professional effectiveness.
Patients with foot ulceration, and especially those with diabetes, are at an increased risk of amputation.
This paper is a meta-analysis looking at progression of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).