Impact of Nutritional and Inflammatory Status in Patients With Critical Limb-threatening Ischemia

In order to show the relevance of patient's inflammatory status regarding the prognosis of PAD, this study establishes the correlation between pre-operative pro-inflammatory biomarkers represented by NLR, LMR and PLR with short-term mortality and major amputations at 6-months. Likewise, the association between the pre-operative PNI with short-term mortality and major amputation at 6-months revealing the impact of nutritional status.

- Data Collection: Demographic and clinical data. The initial surgical technique. The peri-operative outcomes Mortality and major amputation. The hemogram and biochemistry analysis were recorded preoperatively, at 48-hours after admission The inflammatory state was measured by the ratios of neutrophil/lymphocyte (NLR), lymphocyte/monocyte (LMR) and platelet/lymphocyte (PLR).

The nutritional status was estimated by the PNI = (serum albumin g/dL x 10) + (lymphocytes/μL + 0.005).

- Statistical Analysis: significant values p<0.05. Descriptive analysis was presented as mean values and respective standard deviations.

The chi-squared test and Student t-test were used for variables that followed a normal distribution.

A non-parametric test was performed for the rest of variables (Mann-Whitney U). Spearman and Pearson correlations coefficients were calculated to determine the association between biomarkers and the hospital length-of-stay.

For the multivariate analysis a logistic regression was performed. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was applied to establish a cut-off point with the corresponding area under the curve (AUC), 95% confidence interval (95%CI), sensitivity (S) and specificity (E) for short-term mortality and major amputation at six months.