A New Look at Peripheral Vascular Disease in Blacks: A Two-Year Update

A comprehensive overview of 66 patients—the majority of whom were black—undergoing distal lower extremity revascularization for severe atherosclerotic ischemia with impending limb loss is presented. Twenty-five patients are presently two-years postoperative, 19 are one-year post revascularization, and 22 are new additions having undergone revascularization within the last year.