Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Following Lower Extremity Bypass and Percutaneous Revascularization: Should we be Following Ankle Brachial Indexes or Asking Our Patients?

Abstract

Patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) will undergo lower extremity bypass (LEB) and percutaneous vascular intervention (PVI) procedures to prevent limb loss and improve physical function. The success of revascularization has traditionally relied on assessing the ankle brachial index (ABI) but has not considered patient-reported outcomes (PROs). We aimed to determine how physical function PROs (PF-PROs) correlate with the ABI after LEB and PVI procedures.