Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of Perioperative Stroke in Noncarotid Major Vascular Surgery

47,750 patients undergoing noncarotid vascular surgery (elective lower extremity amputation, lower extremity revascularization, or open aortic procedures) from 2005 to 2009 at non-Veterans Administration hospitals identified from the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program database.

Noncarotid major vascular surgery (elective lower extremity amputation, lower extremity revascularization, or open aortic procedures)

Incidence of perioperative stroke within 30 days of surgeryhard clinical