BMC2 Data Sheds Light On Application Of WIfI Scores in PAD Patients

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Elizabeth Horn

"Real World Application of WIfI Scores in Peripheral Arterial Disease Patients" is online ahead of print in the Journal of Vascular Surgery. 

A review of BMC2 data found that the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Wound, Ischemia, and foot Infection (WIfI) clinical stage is significantly associated with 1-year amputation rates in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) following lower extremity revascularization.

As nearly 55% of stage 4 patients require a major amputation within one year of intervention, this study supports the use of the SVS WIfI classification system in clinical decision-making for patients with CLTI.

Learn more about this work from Margaret E. Smith, Drew J. Braet, Jeremy Albright, Matthew A. Corriere, Nicholas H. Osborne, and Peter Henke at PubMed.