conclusion in cases with critical atherosclerotic disease of anterior tibial artery, pta-based biphasic or triphasic retrograde collateral flow prevents ischemia, whereas monophasic support or no retrograde flow remains incapable. results in the patient group, 31 lower limb arteries, of total of 17 cases, were included. after compression maneuver, dpa in 11 cases (six right, five left) showed r...

background: atherosclerosis of the peripheral arteries occurs in 12% of individuals at 65 years of age or older. at least 28% of these patients suffer from coronary heart diseases and 10% of them are afflicted with cerebrovascular diseases. to calculate the agreement between two diagnostic tests for peripheral arterial disease (pad), namely ankle brachial index (abi) and ultrasound duplex scann...

objective: peripheral arterial disease (pad) is a state characterized by atherosclerotic occlusive disease of lower extremities. diabetes is the main risk factor for pad. material and methods: to assess the prevalence of pad, a cross sectional study was performed on 352 diabetic patients who referred to yazd diabetes research center from 2007 to 2010. vascular assessment was done by measuring t...

background: the prevalence of prediabetes in the world continues to increase. these patients have elevated the risk of atherosclerosis. the current study was designed to assess the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (pad) and its related risk factors in prediabetes patients. methods: this was the case-control study in which 135 adults in three groups: diabetes, prediabetes, and normal we...

conclusion peripheral arterial calcification is significantly correlated with cad extent in patients with pad. peripheral arterial calcification can be a useful marker for predicting multivessel-cad. results lecs in multivessel-cad were significantly higher than those in nonsignificant cad (10.0 ± 5.8 versus 4.0 ± 3.1, p < 0.001). lecs significantly correlated with ccs (r = 0.831, p < 0.001) an...

background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...

brachial artery aneurysms are rare but potentially limb threatening condition. the presented case here is a 52-year old male referred to the emergency department complaining a sudden onset and progressive pain with coldness of his right upper extremity during brushing. the right upper extremity was pulseless and three-dimensional computed tomography showed an aneurysm of the proximal right brac...

Objective: Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is a state characterized by atherosclerotic occlusive disease of lower extremities. Diabetes is the main risk factor for PAD. Material and Methods: To assess the prevalence of PAD, a cross sectional study was performed on 352 diabetic patients who referred to Yazd diabetes research center from 2007 to 2010. Vascular assessment was done by measuring ...

results 22 patients were male (73.3%) and the mean age was 60.3 ± 10.6 years in our study group. the most common artery for cut off and run off was superior femoral artery in both assessments. proximal section of each artery was the most common anatomical section for cut off and run off. there was a same report of cut off artery by mr-angiography and surgery (kappa coefficient of agreement was ...