Naohiro Wakabayashi, Shinsuke Kikuchi, Naoya Kuriyama, Yuta Kikuchi, Masahiro Tsutsui, Hayato Ise, Yuri Yoshida, Daiki Uchida, Atsuhiro Koya, Tomonori Shirasaka, Nobuyoshi Azuma, Hiroyuki Kamiya
Purpose: The effect of chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI) on advanced cardiac disease, which requires surgical treatment, has rarely been reported. The purpose of this study was to review the outcomes of cardiac surgery in patients with CLTI and determine the risk factors, with a particular focus on the severity of CLTI. Patients: The baseline characteristics and outcomes of 33 patients who were treated for CLTI and underwent cardiac surgery were retrospectively analyzed...
2022: Frontiers in Surgery