Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is a severe complication of peripheral artery disease (PAD). PAD occurs when plaque builds up in blood vessels that deliver blood from the heart to other areas.
The classical description of patients with acute limb ischemia is represented by the "six Ps": pain, pallor, paralysis, pulse deficit, paresthesia, and poikilothermia. Pain may be either constant ...
Acute limb ischemia (ALI) results from a sudden obstruction in the arterial flow to the extremity due to an embolism or thrombosis. Embolic problems result in a greater degree of ischemia than ...
The case is reported of a 32 year old woman with acute on chronic upper limb ischaemia due to thrombus from a cervical rib that had compressed the right subclavian artery of her dominant hand after ...
The study also details key molecular mechanisms involved in the process. The scientists confirmed these findings by transplanting this population of human stem cells into mice with limb ischemia. In ...
A condition doctors and patients can miss Dr Patel says the 82-year-old had experienced a ‘leg attack’ or limb ischemia, which is typically characterised by a shooting pain in the leg. This is caused ...
Subintimal dissections cause mostly brain and eye ischemia, whereas subadventitial dissections lead to formation of aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms and, if the dissection is intracranial ...