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He also has type 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and peripheral artery disease. ... Bilateral carotid and lower abdominal quadrant bruits are heard. Peripheral extremity pulses are diminished.
November 2021
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It was approved based on data from the ADVANCE trial. The Zilver PTX stent, the first drug-eluting stent indicated to re-open the femoropopliteal artery when narrowed or blocked as ... a result of peripheral artery disease.
February 2013
Peripheral artery disease
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/09/4.htm. A home-based walking exercise program significantly improved walking endurance, physical activity, and speed in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), ... A home-based walking exercise
July 2013
Pearls for lowering lipids
In the trials, patients at the highest risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events (acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, stroke, angina, peripheral artery disease, or coronary revascularization) gained the most benefit from
July 2016
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https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2011/10/04/1.htm. An updated guideline on diagnosis and management of peripheral artery disease was released last week by the American College of Cardiology ... An updated guideline on diagnosis and management of
October 2011
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https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/07/1.htm. Smoking significantly increased the risk for symptomatic peripheral artery disease in women in a dose-dependent manner. ... Smoking significantly increased the risk for symptomatic peripheral
June 2011
Preventive aspirin inflames opinions
Besides recommending aspirin in all patients with coronary artery disease unless contraindicated, the guidelines suggested starting patients on the antiplatelet medication after an acute coronary syndrome or an angioplasty involving a ... Aspirin alone
May 2015
Migraine
11 vs. 6 for hemorrhagic stroke,. 13 vs. 11 for peripheral artery disease,. ... No significant association was seen between migraine and peripheral artery disease (HR, 1.12; 95% CI, 0.96 to 1.30) or heart failure (HR, 1.04; 95% CI, 0.93
February 2018
Treating skin ulcers in the office
Unfortunately, we're not making very good progress on this.”. He pointed to a study, published in 2019 by CMAJ, finding that lower-extremity amputations related to diabetes, peripheral artery disease ... I would say the data is still inconclusive, but
June 2020
Diabetes
myocardial infarction; stable or unstable angina; coronary heart disease with or without revascularization; and other arterial revascularization, stroke, or peripheral artery disease assumed to be atherosclerotic in origin. ... Increased risk of
December 2018