Loss to follow-up 1 year after lower extremity peripheral vascular intervention is associated with worse survival.

Loss to follow-up (LTF) has been associated with worse outcomes after procedures. We sought to identify differences in lower extremity peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) patients with and without LTF, and to determine if LTF impacted survival. Patients in the PVI registry of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) were included ( = 39,342), where -test and chi-squared analysis were used to compare those with and without LTF.