Zusammenfassung der Ressource
PVD
- Risk factors
- Smoking
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Hypertension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Age
- Family history
- High homocysteine protein
- Causes
- Atherosclerosis
- Blood vessel inflammation
- Injury to limbs
- Anomalies
- Radiation exposure
- Pathogenesis of
atherosclerosis
- Signs and symptoms
- Intermittent claudication in
calf
- Changes in
skin
- Diminished pulse in lower
limbs
- Gangrene
- Impotence
- Non-healing wounds over pressure
points
- Numbness
- Pain
- Pallor when legs are elevated
- Diagnosis of PVD
- Medical
history
- Physical examination
- Ankle brachial pressure
index
- Blood lipid
profile
- Doppler ultrasound flow
studies
- CT scan
- Angiogram
- MRI
- Treadmill exercise
test
- Pulse volume recording waveform analysis
- Complications
- Amputation
- Poor wound healing
- Restricted mobility due to pain or discomfort
- Severe pain
- Stroke
- Heart attack
- Prognosis
- Very poor long term prognosis
- Increase 10 year mortality 15 times higher
- Treatment
- Antihyperlipidemic drug
- ACE inhibitors
- Diuretics
- Beta blockers
- Calcium channel blockers
- Stenting