Grade III Category 5: Minor tissue loss - nonhealing ulcer, focal gangrene with diffuse pedal ischaemia

Definition

Objective criteria: Resting ankle pressure (AP) < 60 mm Hg, ankle or metatarsal pulse volume recording (PVR) flat or barely pulsatile; toe pressure (TP) < 40 mm Hg

Also indexed as

Nearby in Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) Severity Classification by Rutherford

• XS1TGrade 0 Category 0: Asymptomatic -no hemodynamically significant occlusive disease
• XS0QGrade 0 Category 1: Mild claudication
• XS2WGrade I Category 2: Moderate claudication
• XS51Grade I Category 3: Severe claudication
• XS8MGrade II Category 4: Ischaemic rest pain
• XS0UGrade III Category 6: Major tissue loss - extending above transmetatarsal (TM) level, functional foot no longer salvageable