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It is generally considered that patients with rest pain and/or ulceration have a bad prognosis independent of the type of treatment given. Many factors can reasonably explain this evolution; the main ones are: multifocal atherosclerotic disease in most instances with a high death frequency secondary to myocardial infarction and stroke, morbidity and mortality secondary to amputations, and higher risk of both arterial and venous thromboembolic disease.
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Wautrecht, J.C., Lefebvre, P., Galle, C., Vincent, G., Motte, S., Dereume, J.P. (1995). Patient prognosis with critical limb ischemia: an update of 164 patients. In: Horsch, S., Claeys, L. (eds) Critical Limb Ischemia. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72515-9_3
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