Development and Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Lower Limb Critical Limb Ischaemia (PREDICCMI)

Critical limb ischaemia (CLI) is the most serious stage of peripheral occlusive arterial disease (POAD). Despite progress in the revascularization procedures, half these patients experience amputation or death after one year. One issue is to identify these subjects because aggressive treatment is necessary in those cases, while in others (ie leg ulcer in a patient with POAD but no rest lower limb ischaemia), revascularization will not be necessary. Then it would be useful to develop a simple score to help the physician to improve diagnosis of CLI.