Body mass index and long-term outcomes in patients with chronic total occlusions undergoing retrograde endovascular revascularization of the infra-inguinal lower limb arteries.

Particular clinical endpoints were higher in patients with lower BMI; however, they did not reach statistical significance when stratified for BMI < 25 kg/m 2 (reinterventions: 19.05% vs. 9.52%, p = 0.66; deaths: 14.29% vs. 4.76%, p = 0.6 and lower extremity bypass surgery: 21.05% vs. 5%, p = 0.18) and for BMI < < 30 kg/m 2 (reinterventions: 17.65% vs. 0%, p = 0.57; deaths: 11.76% vs. 0%, p = 0.57; amputations: 14.29% vs. 12.5%, p = 1.0; lower extremity bypass surgery: 15.63% vs. 0%, p = 0.56).

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