This report deals with tibial arteries revascularizations performed on 28 patients since the year 1966 at the 1st Surgical Clinic of the Charles University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Severeischemic changes with rest pain and necroses were the indications in 22 patients. In all cases a special ...
it happens because your smallest coronary arteries aren't working the way they should, so your heart doesn't get the blood it needs. The chest pain usually lasts more than 10 minutes. This type is more common in women.
A study has found that a subset of a special type of white blood cells called monocytes could be the key to regrowing blood vessels in the legs of patients with chronic limb-threatening limb ischemia (CLTI). Over the course of a seven-year study, the researchers found that injecting these...
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The ratio of systolic blood pressure measured at the ankle to that at the brachial artery, known as the ankle-brachial index, has proven to be a useful non-invasive criterion for diagnosing peripheral arterial disease in the legs [9–11], and lower values of the index have been linked to...
can include intermittent claudication, that is, fatigue, cramping, and pain in the hip, buttock, thigh, knee, shin, or upper foot during exertion that goes away with rest, claudication during rest, numbness, tingling, or coldness in the lower legs or feet, neuropathy, or defective tissue wou...
I have a patient with no history of previous illnesses who was doing fine until 3 weeks ago, when he developed a sudden loss of balance, dizziness, and loss of strength in his legs while he was sitting in his house watching TV. He had been complaining of lower back pain in the previou...
Peripheral artery disease (PAD), where arteries in your arms or legs get blocked Sickle cell disease, a genetic condition where misshaped blood cells can get wedged into arteries more easily COVID-19 Lifestyle.Some of the choices you make every day may affect your chances of having a TIA....
For the past couple of days, he has been very tired, has had difficulty breathing, and has noticed his feet and legs have become very swollen. Just in the past day, Frank has also been feeling pain and tightness in his chest. These symptoms made Frank very nervous, so he decided to ...
Confocal microscopic examination of GFP+ CD34+/M-cad+ cell-treated ischemic legs followed by immunostaining indicated the vascular differentiation of CD34+/M-cad+ progenitor cells. A cytokine antibody array revealed that CD34+/M-cad+ cell-conditioned medium contained higher levels of cytokines in a...