Improved mortality in treatment of patients with endovascular interventions for chronic mesenteric ischemia

Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) continues to be a devastating diagnosis. There is a national trend toward increased use of endovascular procedures with improved survival for the treatment of these patients. Our aim was to evaluate whether this trend has changed CMI patients' length of hospitalization and health care cost.We identified all patients admitted for CMI from the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2000 to 2014. Our primary end...