Figure 2.

Clinical outcomes after lower extremity (LE) amputation. The occurrence of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke in patients hospitalized for peripheral artery disease (PAD) with and without major LE amputation: cumulative incidence rates of all-cause mortality (top panel), myocardial infarction (middle panel), and stroke (bottom panel) after major LE amputation.

Note: Reprinted from Am Heart J. Vol. 165(5). Jones WS, Patel MR, Dai D, et al. High mortality risks after major lower extremity amputation in Medicare patients with peripheral artery disease. Pages 809–815. © 2013, with permission from Elsevier.¹⁶

Abbreviations: w/o, without; w, with.