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Peripheral Vascular Diseases*

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Peripheral Vascular Diseases*

Stenting is a highly effective procedure for patients with peripheral vascular diseases, but procedure-related complications can occur. The use of balloon-expandable stents has resulted in a spectrum of deployment-associated complications and new technical challenges for surgeons. This case describes a probably uncommon scenario, in which an undeployed balloon-expandable stent abruptly dislodged from the balloon catheter and stacked in an iliac bifurcation. The unexpanded stent was captured using a low-profile balloon and was then anchored at an alternate location. This situation was managed successfully without the need for an open retrieval procedure.
Catheters ; Humans ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases ; Stents

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Drug Therapy* ; Humans ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases* ; Thrombolytic Therapy*

Determination of peripheral artery disease by using a simple automatic blood pressure device with ankle-brachial indexes (ABIs) was feasible for the doctors who couldn’t use Doppler method. 219 patients were examined at Cardiovascular Department, Hospital 108 and were measured ABIs. Results: The correlations between ABI in both methods were good in left legs (r=0.66,p<0.001) and in right legs (r=0.61, p<0.001). This method is inexpensive, easy to use, and can detect peripheral artery disease in early stage
Peripheral Vascular Diseases ; Blood Pressure ; Doppler Effect ; diagnosis ; Equipment and Supplies

Compartment syndrome is the term used to describe the constellation of clinical symptoms and signs associated with pathophysiologically elevated intracompartmental pressure. It is an infrequent but serious complication of the revascularization of peripheral arterial disease, encountered in surgical bypass and thrombolytic procedures. We present two cases of intraarterial thrombolysis and percutaneous transluminal intervention of the lower extremity arteries, complicated by the development of compartment syndrome.
Arteries ; Compartment Syndromes* ; Lower Extremity ; Peripheral Arterial Disease ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases

Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) is a non-artherosclerotic cause of claudication and acute ischemia of the legs in young athletic individuals. It is classified in terms of the abnormal anatomical relationship between the popliteal artery and surrounding structures. All types of PAES have the same pathophysiology. Repetitive arterial compression by surrounding structures causes progressive vascular injury. Bilateral PAES is reported in about 30% of cases. Bilateral PAES is usually of the same type in each artery; exceptions are rare. We report a case of a young athletic patient who suffered bilateral PAES of two different types.
Arteries ; Humans ; Ischemia ; Leg ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases ; Popliteal Artery* ; Sports ; Vascular System Injuries

Tingling Sensation on Hands and Feet is one of common sensory symptoms, which is frequently associated with not only peripheral nerve disorders, including polyneuropathies, entrapment neuropathies(carpal tunnel syndrome or tarsal tunnel syndrome) and radiculopathies, but also stroke or peripheral vascular diseases. Despite numerous conditions causing acroparesthesia, characteristic symptoms and signs of each category can afford to inform the critical differentiating clues like followings glove-stocking paresthesia in polyneuroapthy, dermatomal radiating paresthesia in radiculopathy, sensory level in myelopathy, and crossed paresthesia in brainstem lesion. In this review, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to acroparesthesia is schematically described. In addition, neuropathic pain, a special type of pain or unpleasant feeling caused by partial/complete denervation of sensory nervous systems, as one of common causes of acroparesthesia, will be discussed.
Brain Stem ; Denervation ; Diagnosis* ; Foot* ; Hand* ; Nervous System ; Neuralgia ; Paresthesia ; Peripheral Nerves ; Peripheral Nervous System Diseases ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases ; Polyneuropathies ; Radiculopathy ; Sensation* ; Spinal Cord Diseases ; Stroke

Humans ; COVID-19/complications* ; Ischemia ; Arterial Occlusive Diseases ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases

BACKGROUND: The loss or depression of ankle jerk has been considered one of the earliest physical findings of diabetic polyneuropathy, even in asymptomatic cases. Therefore, the electronic ankle T-reflex test (ATR) could be a sensitive, objective test for the early detection of polyneuropathy among diabetics. METHOD: In order to verify the sensitivity and usefulness of the ATR, the ankle jerk and ATR were studied in 99 legs of 50 patients with diabetes who did not have any symptoms related to neuropathy or peripheral vascular disease at the time of the study. A sensory nerve conduction study (SNCS) of sural and superficial peroneal nerves was also performed and the results were compared with the ATR. RESULTS: The ATR response was abnormal in 42.4% of the legs tested and was more sensitive than the sural SNCS (18.2%) or superficial peroneal SNCS (30.3%) in revealing subclinical abnormalities. Our results confirm that ATR abnormalities in asymptomatic diabetics are more frequent than conventional SNCS abnormalities and are a reliable indicator of peripheral nerve dysfunction in diabetic patients. CONCLUSIONS: The ATR seems to be a sensitive test in detecting subclinical abnormalities in diabetics and would be useful especially in early or equivocal cases of
Ankle ; Depression ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Diabetic Neuropathies ; Electrophysiology ; Humans ; Leg ; Neural Conduction ; Peripheral Nerves ; Peripheral Vascular Diseases ; Peroneal Nerve ; Polyneuropathies