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Dr.Pradeep Muley

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Peripheral Artery Disease PAD, Dr. Pradeep Muley, Interventional Radiologist, New Delhi, INDIA

A circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs called peripheral artery disease.

The most common symptoms of PAD involving the lower extremities are cramping, pain or tiredness in the leg or hip muscles while walking or climbing stairs. Typically, this pain goes away with rest and returns when you walk again.

Other factors can increase your chances for peripheral artery disease, including:

Your risk for peripheral artery disease increases with age.
High blood pressure or high cholesterol puts you at risk for PAD.
If you smoke, you have an especially high risk for PAD.
If you have diabetes, you have an especially high risk for PAD.

symptoms of PAD include:
1. Leg pain that does not go away when you stop exercising
2. Foot or toe wounds that won't heal or heal very slowly Gangrene, or dead tissue
3. A marked decrease in the temperature of your lower leg or foot particularly compared to the other leg or to the rest of your body
4. Poor nail growth on the toes or hair growth on the legs
5. Erectile dysfunction, especially in men with diabetes

Diagnosing PAD
a. Physical examination.
b. Ankle-brachial index (ABI)
c. Doppler and Ultrasound (Duplex) imaging.
d. Computed Tomographic Angiography (CT)
e. Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)
f. Digital subtraction angiography

Treatment: -
after workup need digital subtraction angiography to decide to do angioplasty or stenting, may some time need bypass surgery. in rare case it need amputation of toe, foot or may leg also depends on artery block.

For more detailed information
login to website - www.indianinterventionalradiology.com
or whatsApp to mobile 9810492778

Dr. Pradeep Muley
Interventional Radiologist
New Delhi, India

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