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Diabetes and peripheral arterial disease [PDF]
Background: Diabetes mellitus increases the risk for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) early in life and the disease is likely to progress to advanced stages. Mechanisms responsible for premature PAD in diabetes are partly unknown. Leg ischaemia from PAD,
Malmstedt, Jonas
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Background: A significant proportion of patients with ischemic heart disease have been associated with peripheral arterial disease, yet it is still underestimated by our health system as many of patients are asymptomatic and this condition remains under ...
Osama A. Altaei, Abbass N. Al-Sharifi
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Predictors of walking capacity in peripheral arterial disease patients [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To estimate walking capacity in intermittent claudication patients through a prediction model based on clinical characteristics and the walking impairment questionnaire. METHODS: The sample included 133 intermittent claudication patients of
Chehuen, MR+7 more
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BackgroundThe measurement of the ankle-brachial pressure index is a straightforward method for the detection of peripheral disease in the lower limbs. Only a few old studies with small numbers of patients have been conducted comparing the gold standard ...
Nadjib Schahab+7 more
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Non-invasive assessment of peripheral arterial disease: Automated ankle brachial index measurement and pulse volume analysis compared to duplex scan [PDF]
Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to individually and cumulatively compare sensitivity and specificity of the (1) ankle brachial index and (2) pulse volume waveform analysis recorded by the same automated device, with the presence or absence ...
Aburahma AF+19 more
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Mortality over a period of 10 years in patients with peripheral arterial disease.
BACKGROUND Previous investigators have observed a doubling of the mortality rate among patients with intermittent claudication, and we have reported a fourfold increase in the overall mortality rate among subjects with large-vessel peripheral arterial ...
M. Criqui+6 more
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Common carotid intima media thickness and ankle-brachial pressure index correlate with local but not global atheroma burden:a cross sectional study using whole body magnetic resonance angiography [PDF]
Common carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) and ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) are used as surrogate marker of atherosclerosis, and have been shown to correlate with arterial stiffness, however their correlation with global atherosclerotic burden ...
A Lerman+54 more
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Antithrombotic therapy in peripheral arterial disease
BackgroundPatients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are at increased risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) such as cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and stroke as well as major adverse limb events (MALE) such as amputation ...
Christine Espinola-Klein+5 more
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Preventive Therapies in Peripheral Arterial Disease
Atherosclerosis, while initially deemed a bland proliferative process, is now recognized as a multifactorial-lipoprotein-mediated inflammation-driven pathway.
Aangi J. Shah+2 more
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2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) : Document covering atherosclerotic disease of extracranial carotid and vertebral, mesenteric ...
V. Aboyans+105 more
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