Balancing Days at Home and Major Adverse Limb Events After Surgical Versus Endovascular Lower‐Extremity Revascularization in Chronic Kidney Disease
Tara I. Chang, Gomathy Parvathinathan, Sai Liu, Jun Young Lee, Ali Etemadi, Shipra Arya, Margaret R. Stedman · 2026
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Tara I. Chang and colleagues weigh, in a 2026 Medicare study, the trade-off between open surgery and catheter procedures for restoring blood flow to the legs of older patients with chronic kidney disease. Surgeons and patients value currencies: days spent at home versus limbs preserved. The team compared 87,446 beneficiaries aged sixty-six and over treated between 2008 and 2017, only 15.3 percent of them surgically, computing days at home and days lost to limb events over the year.
Surgery cost home time at every horizon: about 8.4 fewer days at home by one month and 31.9 fewer by one year than the endovascular route. In exchange, surgery protected limbs, with 17.3 fewer days given up to serious limb events by one year in that comparison. Neither approach wins outright; the numbers describe a values trade. The authors argue these figures, time at home against limb risk, belong in conversations with kidney patients.
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| CREATOR | Tara I. Chang, Gomathy Parvathinathan, Sai Liu, Jun Young Lee, Ali Etemadi, Shipra Arya, Margaret R. Stedman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |