The most common sites are the legs and feet. When the brain is affected, it is called a stroke. When the heart is involved, it is called a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI). Causes and symptoms A common cause of embolus is when an artery whose lining has become thickened or ...
Venous ulcers can be painful(particularly worse at the end of the day) and are often found in thegaiter regionof the legs (Fig. 1).Associated symptomsof chronic venous disease, such as aching, itching, or a bursting sensation, will be present often before venous leg ulcers appear. ...
Free flap transfers are used to treat chronic venous insufficiency ulcers when significant lipodermatosclerosis is present.79 Pedicle transfers harvest the donor tissue from an adjacent site, keeping the vascular supply intact and rotating the flap onto the recipient site. In cases of muscle flaps, ...
Its clinical forms include angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, and atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis. More frequently encountered today are myocarditis, an inflammatory myocardial disease, and cardiomyopathy, a noninflammatory myocardial disease. Endocarditis, an infectious and inflammatory disease of the ...
> 1.3 Falsely high value (suspicion of medal sclerosis) 0.9–1.3 Normal finding 0.75–0.9 Mild PAD 0.4–0.75 Moderate PAD < 0.4 Severe PAD ABI = ankle brachial index; PAD = peripheral artery disease. Source–Stiegler H, Brandl R. Importance of ultrasound for diagnosing peripheral artery disease...