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Radiotracer Imaging of Peripheral Vascular Disease.
Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is an atherosclerotic disease affecting the lower extremities, resulting in skeletal muscle ischemia, intermittent claudication, and, in more severe stages of disease, limb amputation and death. The evaluation of therapy in this patient population can be challenging, as the standard clinical indices are insensitive to assessment of regional alterations in skele...
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There is little doubt that one of the greatest advances in the field of peripheral arterial disease was our ability to visualize problems wherever they occurred. This was possible because of the development of arteriography. One of the dramatic developments that made this possible was the observation by Forsmann1 in 1929 that a catheter could be threaded through a peripheral vein into the right...
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Background. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of severe peripheral arterial insufficiency on carnitine concentrations and carnitine acetyltransferase and palmitoyltransferase activities in the ischemic skeletal muscles of patients with severe peripheral vascular disease. Methds and Results. Nine biopsy specimens ofischemic muscles were obtained from five patients undergoing reconst...
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4 T.NE S ..= v A O = TlS S ~~ ' ~TIME --3. Figure 1 Case 1. Doppler ultrasound examination of axillary arteries. (a) Left axillary artery showing diminished height of systolic wave, broadening of complex and absent negative wave as occurs in arteries beyond a stenosis indicating greater than 75% narrowing. (b) Right axillary artery with steep systolic wave and normal negative complex for compar...
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Doctors Barnet and Fraser of the Alfred Hospital Clinical Research Unit, Melbourne, Australia submitted this monograph for the Stawell Memorial Prize Essay of the British Medical Association for the year 1952 and were awarded the prize. They believed a "fresh consideration" of peripheral vascular disease in order because of the great prevalence of this type of disease, the need for increasing a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reports in Medical Imaging
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1179-1586
DOI: 10.2147/rmi.s4868