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Prognosis of Patients With Diabetes Mellitus After Endarterectomy of the Femoral Artery

Peter Parketta

Fritz Heholein

The perioperative prognosis of 81 diabetic patients after endarterectomy of the femoral artery was analyzed by a computer program and compared to the prognosis of a control group of 83 nondiabetic patients. The percentage of fe male patients in the group with diabetes mellitus was 22% in comparison with 8% of the control group. Most of the diabetic patients in clinical degree II/III were approximately 10 years younger at the time of operation than the patients of the control group. Cardiac complications occurred in 16% of the diabetic patients and in 1% of the nondiabetic patients. The hospital mortality in the group with diabetes mellitus was 14%, significantly higher than the 6% mortality among patients of the control group (² = 4.26). Clinical evaluation of the patients in both groups showed that the patency rate of the reconstructed vessels was 80%.

Angiology, Vol. 29, No. 7, 548-555 (1978)
DOI: 10.1177/000331977802900706


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