Impact of betablockers on general and local outcome in patients hospitalized for lower extremity peripheral artery disease: The COPART Registry.

Lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) is one manifestation of atherosclerosis. Patients with PAD have an increased rate of mortality due to concurrent coronary artery disease and hypertension. Betablockers (BB) may, therefore, be prescribed, especially in case of heart failure.

Comparison of one-year prognosis of patients classified as chronic critical lower limb ischaemia according to TASC II or European consensus definition in the COPART cohort.

Background: We compared one-year amputation and survival rates in patients fulfilling 1991 European consensus critical limb ischaemia (CLI) definition to those clas, sified as CLI by TASC II but not European consensus (EC) definition.

Patients And Methods: Patients were selected from the COPART cohort of hospitalized patients with peripheral occlusive arterial disease suffering from lower extremity rest pain or ulcer and who completed one-year follow-up. Ankle and toe systolic pressures and transcutaneous oxygen pressure were measured.

Anemia, an independent predictive factor for amputation and mortality in patients hospitalized for peripheral artery disease.

Objectives: Anemia is associated with poorer outcome in coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure (HF), but data on patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are scarce, especially regarding the local (limb) prognosis. It was hypothesized that anemia is associated with poorer prognosis in patients hospitalized for PAD, and this relationship would be proportional to the severity of the anemia.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Changes in hospitalization rates for acute coronary syndrome after a two-phase comprehensive smoking ban.

Aims: The impact of a comprehensive stepwise smoking ban (2007 and 2008) was assessed by analysing the hospitalization rate for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in France, between 2003 and 2009.

Methods And Results: Between 2003 and 2009, 867,164 hospitalizations for ACS were observed among about 23 million administrative reports. The age-and gender-standardized hospitalization rates were calculated and their variation before and after the smoking ban implementation was investigated by Poisson regression that included the ACS seasonal variations and the historical trend.

Chronic kidney disease and the short-term risk of mortality and amputation in patients hospitalized for peripheral artery disease.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its prognostic value in patients hospitalized for lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Methods: Data from the COhorte des Patients ARTériopathes registry, a prospective multicenter, observational study of consecutive patients hospitalized for PAD in academic hospitals of southwestern France, were analyzed. All the subjects were in Rutherford grade ≥ 3, and 55.