Background: Endovascular interventions are performed routinely with minimal risk in younger populations. The safety and efficacy of endovascular interventions in nonagenarians is under examined. We sought to examine the following (1) mortality and limb salvage rates in the nonagenarian population and (2) whether frailty was associated with outcomes following lower extremity (LE) interventions for both acute limb ischemia (ALI) and chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI).
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