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Patients were followed during 28 months using clinical examination and Duplex Ultrasound (DUS) in accordance with prescheduled control visits. <br /><strong>Results<br /></strong> There was a statistical difference between surgical and endovascular group in two years patency (82.5% vs. 55%; p=0.022) but it did not result in the difference in amputation free survival (AFS) (95% vs. 85%; p=0.171) or two-year freedom from major adverse limb events (MALE) (87.5 vs. 77.5; p=0.254). Also, there was no difference in the overall survival of patients (100% vs. 97.5%; p=0.317). <br /><strong>Conclusion<br /></strong> Initial endovascular treatment is a preferred form of the treatment for selected patient population.</p>","journal":"Medicinski Glasnik","year":2020,"id":33457,"datarank":0.2328522857898507,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"self_citation_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citation_network_contribution":0.024908131621867075,"self_endowment_contribution":0.20794415416798362,"citer_contribution":0.024908131621867075,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":3,"citers_with_citation_signal":1,"citers_with_endowment":1,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":175030,"name":"Vesna Ðurović Sarajlić","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175031,"name":"Haris Vranić","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175032,"name":"Amel Hadžimehmedagić","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175033,"name":"Nedžad Rustempašić","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175034,"name":"Muhamed Djedović","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175035,"name":"Haris Vukas","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175036,"name":"Alen Ahmetašević","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":175029,"name":"Dragan Totić","orcid":"0000-0002-8929-5428","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"base_score":1.3862943611198906,"endowment":1.3862943611198906,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"32602301","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W3038608668","authors":[],"funders":[],"total_grants":0,"fwci":0.2062,"citation_percentile":0.536701,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2023,"count":1},{"year":2025,"count":2}],"oa_status":"gold","license":"cc-by-nc-nd","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.17392/1143-20","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.17392/1143-20","host_type":"GOLD"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.17392/1143-20","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://medicinskiglasnik.ba/article/173/pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32602301","host_type":"repository"}],"fields_of_study":["Peripheral Artery Disease Management","Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases","Vascular Procedures and Complications","Medicine","Amputation, Surgical","Humans","Ischemia","Kaplan-Meier Estimate","Limb Salvage","Peripheral Arterial Disease","Prospective Studies","Retrospective Studies","Risk Factors","Treatment Outcome"],"mesh_terms":["Amputation, Surgical","Humans","Ischemia","Prospective Studies","Retrospective Studies","Risk Factors","Treatment Outcome","Limb Salvage","Kaplan-Meier Estimate","Peripheral Arterial Disease"],"keywords":["Critical limb ischemia","Arterial disease","Medicine","Peripheral","Limb ischemia","Endovascular treatment","Ischemia","Disease","Vascular disease","Surgery","Cardiology","Internal medicine","Aneurysm","Surgical","Endovascular","Peripheral Arterial Disease","Endovascular Procedure","Infrainguinal Bypass","Amputation-free Survival","Patient Survival Critical Limb Ischemia"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":0,"sdg_label":"Good health and well-being"}],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-06-09T16:17:09.842716Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}