Tag: Peripheral Artery Disease

Reducing Nontraumatic Lower-Extremity Amputations by 20% by 2030: Time to Get to Our Feet – A Policy Statement from @American_Heart @CircAHA

An important Policy Statement in Circulation by the American Heart Association (Creager and coworkers) calling for a 20% reduction in lower extremity amputations over the next decade. Ladies and gentlemen: This is doable. Nontraumatic lower-extremity amputation is a devastating complication of peripheral artery disease (PAD) with a high mortality and medical expenditure. There are ≈150... Continue Reading →

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Meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care tests for peripheral artery disease in people with diabetes #ActAgainstAmputation #Diagnostics

Important work from Normahani and coworkers from Imperial College, London. Objective: There is currently no agreement as to which bedside test is the most useful for the diagnosis of PAD in diabetes. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the performance of bedside tests for the detection of PAD in individuals with... Continue Reading →

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