Contemporary outcomes of surgical revascularization of the lower extremity in patients on dialysis

With improvements in the medical care of ESRD patients resulting in a large increase in survival rates, little is known about how dialysis patients fare after OSRLE in the contemporary period. Our study shows that despite advances in the medical management of dialysis patients, improvements in outcomes after revascularization have not yet been realized. We found that specific clinical and procedural factors increase the risk for inferior results. Careful selection of dialysis patients suitable for OSRLE according to these risk factors may improve the management of this still high-risk vascular population.