Peripheral Atherosclerotic Obliterans Disease

发布日期:2020-11-06 15:45reading:

Patient: 
Male, 68 years old 
Peripheral Atherosclerotic Obliterans Disease


With a history of 13 years peripheral atherosclerotic obliterans with severe intermittent claudication of the lower left limb with local cold, numbness and rest pain for half a year. He was diagnosed with left atherosclerotic occlusion. 


He was treated with an arteriovenous foot pump and conventional oral medication. After half a month of treatment, the intermittent claudication distance was increased from 78 meters to 115 meters, 183 meters in the 3rd month and 191.5 meters in the 4th and 5th months (increasement 146%) with the popliteal artery blood flow increase of 36% indicating an improved collateral circulation.