Incident cardiovascular events and early mortality in patients with revascularized critical limb ischemia.

Objectives: Patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) present a high risk of cardiovascular events and death. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and one-year mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous revascularization procedure for CLI.

Methods: This investigation is a retrospective analysis of an ongoing cohort study in patients with CLI undergoing endovascular revascularization, hospitalized in the vascular medicine department from November 2013 to December 2018.