The disparities between men and women in prevalence, risk factors and symptoms of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) have a ...

St. Luke’s physicians are offering a new minimally invasive procedure that offers hope to persons facing likely amputation of ...

dissolving-phlegm and removing-toxin combined with conventional treatment in preventing and treating post-operative vascular restenosis in patients with diabetic lower extremity arterial disease ...

THE term "varicose veins" customarily suggests, immediately, and almost exclusively, abnormal dilatations and tortuosities of the saphenous veins of the lower extremity. If one then stops to ...

After years of decreasing amputations in the United States, rates of non-traumatic lower extremity amputations ... Peripheral arterial disease, the narrowing or blockage of blood vessels from ...

Many persons experiencing a totally blocked blood supply to their leg eventually must undergo major lower extremity amputation ... diabetes or chronic kidney disease, or those who are long ...

The number of lower extremity US exams that would need to be performed to avoid one chest CT study was 11 (number needed to treat). Mean direct costs per patient were 24% lower in the DD-CT group ...