This review examines current evidence for baseline functional impairment and changes with
therapy in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD)-ranging from patients without …

Objective: To review quality of life (QOL) instruments for chronic limb-threatening ischemia
(CLTI) patients and informal carers, and their use in QOL and cost-utility analysis (CUA) …

To investigate health-related quality of life (HRQL) in diabetes patients separately for those
with current foot ulcers, those with primary healed ulcers, and those who have undergone …

Amputation of a limb may affect quality of life. However, little is known concerning health-
related quality of life in amputees. The purposes of this study were to describe health-related …

BACKGROUND: Despite being a major determinant of functional independence, ambulation
after major limb amputation has not been well studied. The purpose, therefore, of this study …

BACKGROUND: Several studies have described the use of popliteal-to-distal bypass grafts,
mostly in patients with diabetes mellitus who show tissue loss and represent a high-risk …

Context: Reports of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) bypass grafting to the infrapopliteal
arteries have often used survival analysis of acceptable quality to describe a wide range of …

Objective To assess the comparative effectiveness and temporal changes in quality of life
(QoL) outcomes after revascularisation, major lower extremity amputation (MLEA), and …

Purpose: The impact of hemodynamically successful or unsuccessful bypass grafting or
angioplasty on patients' quality of life was assessed throughout the first year postsurgery …

The objectives of the study were to analyse the impact of increasing lower-limb ischaemia
upon quality of life and to assess the correlation between clinical indicators of lower-limb …