Antiphospholipid antibodies are increasingly investigated as a cause of arterial and venous thrombosis. These include anticardiolipin and lupus anticoagulant antibodies. The former was linked to several types of venous thrombosis, included deep venous thrombosis in upper and lower limbs, pulmonary embolism, intracranial venous and retinal venous thrombosis. Types of arterial thrombosis can be involved in coronary, carotid, cerebral or retinal arteries... Anticardiolipin antibody is found commonly in myocardial infarction, valve abnormalities and lupus erythematous.
Thromboembolism ; Antibodies, Antiphospholipid ; Cardiology

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

The study on the relationship between systole pressure index (SPI) in arm and ankle having cardiovascular risk and antherosclerosis side-effect of increasing pressure patients shows: there is an exist of inverse relationship between SPI having cardiovascular risk and clinical signals and pre-clinical signals as well of having cardiovascular of high pressure patients. SPI reduced in high pressure patients. The more SPI decreases, the higher of cardiovascular risk is. SPI is a reliable index to diagnose leg artery. SPI lower than 1 is a factor strictly relating to antherosclerosis side-effect
Hypertension ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; Arteriosclerosis

A study on 111 hypertension patients (101 male and 10 female) from 43 to 81 years old were conducted at Cardiology department A2, Internal for Officers department and Traditional Medicine department in the Army National hospital No 108 from March 2002 to Jul 2003. The result showed that: The rate of increase blood lipid is highest in the hypertension patient group. The rate of diabetes: 13.5%. Study of alteration on complexion and speed flow on femoral artery on coloured ultrasound doppler on primary hypertention combination with diabetes showed that the speed of systolic flow of hypertention patients group with diabetes is higher than that of hypertension group without diabetes (p <0.05). The co-effect of diabetes and hypertension harm femoral artery more severely.
Femoral Artery ; Hypertension ; Diabetes Mellitus ; Ultrasonics