if you get your legs amputed because of peripheral vascular disease? do you not have the disease anymore?
If someone has peripheral vascular disease which has resulted in amputation, the amputation does not cure the disease. This is a severe manifestation of disease. The risk of having a heart attack, stroke or kidney failure is high. There needs to be lifelong treatment with diet, exercise and medications to control blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes if present. Do not let someone tell you that the cholesterol is not high. If there has been an amputation due to peripheral vascular disease, the cholesterol is too high. Additionally quitting smoking is essential. (
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A case of peripheral vascular disease, vascular surgons/ intervention cardiologist please?
One of my patient named Mr. Dhirajbhai Shah 69yrs/ male, he is known case of
Diabetes > 10 yrs
Hypertension > 10 yrs
Ventricular outflow obstruction in brain > 10 yrs
Diabetic nephropathy for last 3 yrs
Benign prostatic hypertrophy for last 6 months
Operated case of CABG and Cholecystectomy,
He developed pain in both legs, pain increases at the time of walking, one limb is swalloen because of filariasis from a long time, his sugar level is under control, s. creatinine is 2.3, no other gross abnormalities in blood reports.
His MR angio of both lowerlimb reveals,
* Narrowing of the distal portion of abdominal aorta
* Non visualisation of right common iliac artery with reformation of right external iliac via collaterals
* Block of proximal and middle thirds of superficial femoral arteries, bilaterally with reconsitution of lower thirds.
* Non visualisation of right anterior and posterior arteries
* non visualisation of middle and distal thirds of left tibial arteries.
Medication : at present he on Oral hypoglycemic agents with sos insulin
Losar H ( Losartan with hydrochlorthiazide 50 + 12.5)
Ecosprin 150 mg ( Aspirin)
Clopidogral 75 mg
Acitrom 2 mg
Atorvastatin 20 mg bed time
Trental 400 mg tds
Symptomatic medicine
As patient is not very much co operative and inspite of chances of renal failure requiring dialysis personally relatives would like to go for non invesive procedure.
Thanking you
Yours sincerly
Dr. Nemish gandhi M.D.
Consultant physician.
Krishna clinic
1/1026 choki street,
Nanpura,
Surat. : 395001
Gujarat
India
m :092279 02941
098252 89330
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MR angio is famous for not well visualising the lower extremity arteries in detail.
Without seeing the angios, it hard to tell if an endovascular procedure would work. It might be worth it to get a standard angiogram (after proper premedication and hydration). This would provide the interventionalist with badly needed info. If there is significant stenosis in the aorto-iliac vessels, it might be treated with stents.
One possiblity is athrectomy using a device called the Silver Hawk.
However, this isn't always possible/successful.
A bypass would only work if there are good target vessels below the SFAs.
Difficult situation. Best of luck. (
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Does anyone have any info re Life Line Screening to identify anuerisms and cardio vascular disease?
They are coming to our local area and for £139 will check of Stroke Screening ECG give anultra sound to aorta for narrowing and an evaluation of peripheral arterial disease.
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Yes, ED screening - to identify abdominal aortic aneurysms in asymptomatic geriatric patients.
http://www.dmannose.co.uk (
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I have CO-PD with Asthma and Peripheral Neuropathy. Are these diseases related together?
I suffer from both at the same time. And a number of other adult ailments.
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COPD w/ asthma and peripheral neuropathy are not related. peripheral neuropathy are commonly caused by diabetes and renal disease. please consult your doctor. (
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what is the difference between peripheral vascular and peripheral articular disease?
One is veins, one is arteries. Blood goes in through one, arteries, and out though the other. Hope this helps!!! (
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burst gastric ulcer and peripheral vascular disease?
dad was rushed to er with a burst ulcer he was un aware he had he already had untreated pvd as his calf of one leg would play him up on and off
after successful emergency treatment by way of an op he has made good proggress however they have him on anti biotics and also a blood thinner jab
and his feet have become very swollen and some blisters have formed that have now burst on their own
his consultant is happy the leg problem is chronic and not acute after having had an mra scan
but i wondered what causes this cellulitis type odeama after such an op and how long it will take to improve and what steps we could take to help it
dad is out of bed and walking with a frame having gone in there fully mobile any ideas please thankyou
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my dad also had this,it took a while may 2 months untill he was well enough to go back to work, hes fine now no problems walking,its such a major op its very sore and is painful when moving and walking iam sure your dad will be fine just as mine is, dont worry. (
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name four diseases/ injurise of the Cardio Vascular Sytem?
thanks... all i need are 4 and maybe just a basic description of what they are... THANKS
even if you only know one that helps....
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Over the past month I have had vision loss, peripheral vision loss and severe headaches?
I also have an almost constant left eye twitching. I also have been woken up with severe sharp stabbing leg pain. MRI shows and arachnoid cyst. I have fallen down stairs, am running into walls and have memory loss. HELP! I was just in the hospital for 3 days and told I might have vascular headaches or migraines and now was told that a week of constant severe headaches is probably NOT a migraine.
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Did they check for glaucoma? (
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Tell me about Peripheral Diseases?
Weakness in the lower extremeties.
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Can I sue the cigarette companies for Peripheral Arterial Disease?
My father smoked for 40 years and although I've tried to get him to stop many times and he has on occasion but now Peripheral Arterial Disease has really got him in pain all day long, he doesn't drive so he is very restricted, I know they have been sued for emphasima before but this is new and very common?
Its amazing to me the amount of anger and uncompassionate comments that has been received. Do you think growing up trying to get my father to stop was simply a matter of doing it. He is addicted and when he started smoking it was pushed on him. It doesn't stop the pain seeing him suffer. Our community can't even support those who need it. Where is the compassion in the world.
Underthesea223 you give me hope that our community still has hope for the people in it.
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I am very sorry to hear about your father.
Unfortunately, you would find such a lawsuit very expensive and probably very unrewarding. Even if the case was won, the only ones who would really make money are the lawyers. You would also be confronted every day with anger and bitterness towards a company that cares far more about selling cigarettes than about your father's life. I'm sure you have a lot of anger and fear and perhaps even guilt. Trying to sue the cigarette industry is not going to absolve you of any of this pain; in fact, it will probably only make it worse because you will have to think about it every day and use it to drive you forward.
I hate to say it, but you will also face a lot of people who will judge your father for his habit of smoking cigarettes. It's terrible, I know. Again, I am very sorry to hear about your father's illness. (
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