Jun 12, 2019

Global Vascular Guidelines on the Management of Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery : the official journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
Michael S Conte, Andrew W Bradbury, Philippe Kolh, John V White, Florian Dick, Robert Fitridge, Joseph L Mills, Jean-Baptiste Ricco, Kalkunte R Suresh, M Hassan Murad, Victor Aboyans, Murat Aksoy, Vlad-Adrian Alexandrescu, David Armstrong, Nobuyoshi Azuma, Jill Belch, Michel Bergoeing, Martin Bjorck, Nabil Chakfé, Stephen Cheng, Joseph Dawson, Eike S Debus, Andrew Dueck, Susan Duval, Hans H Eckstein, Roberto Ferraresi, Raghvinder Gambhir, Mauro Gargiulo, Patrick Geraghty, Steve Goode, Bruce Gray, Wei Guo, Prem C Gupta, Robert Hinchliffe, Prasad Jetty, Kimihiro Komori, Lawrence Lavery, Wei Liang, Robert Lookstein, Matthew Menard, Sanjay Misra, Tetsuro Miyata, Greg Moneta, Jose A Munoa Prado, Alberto Munoz, Juan E Paolini, Manesh Patel, Frank Pomposelli, Richard Powell, Peter Robless, Lee Rogers, Andres Schanzer, Peter Schneider, Spence Taylor, Melina V De Ceniga, Martin Veller, Frank Vermassen, Jinsong Wang, Shenming Wang, GVG Writing Group for the Joint Guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), and World Federation of Vascular Societies (WFVS)
Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) is associated with mortality, amputation, and impaired quality of life. These Global Vascular Guidelines (GVG) are focused on definition, evaluation, and management of CLTI with the goals of improving evidence-based care and highlighting critical research needs. The term CLTI is preferred over critical limb ischemia, as the latter implies threshold values of impaired perfusion rather than a continuum. CLTI is a clinical syndrome defined by the presence of...