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By means of a recently developed technique, red-cell deformability was measured in 44 patients with peripheral vascular disease and in 44 age and sex matched normal control subjects. 28 patients had intermittent claudication and 16 rest pain or gangrene. The ability of the red cells to deform was significantly reduced in patients and significantly less in patients with rest pain or gangrene than in those who only had intermittent claudication. A reduction in red-cell deformability by retarding blood-flow through the microcirculation may be an important factor in states of peripheral vascular insufficiency.
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PMID:Impaired red cell deformability in peripheral vascular disease. 7 40

Vascular surgeons are in agreement that autogenous saphenous veins are best suited for bypasses from the common femoral artery to the distal popliteal artery in the management of femoropopliteal occlusive disease associated with the severely ischemic foot. Such a graft should be of adequate size (more than 3 mm in diameter) throughout its length for a successful outcome. In some patients the vein is of good size for 15 or 20 cm then branches into several small veins. Reports by most surgeons are unfavorable concerning the use of prostheses and bovine heterografts for anastomosis to the distal popliteal artery or to one of its branches. Our experience with composite dacron vein graft bypasses employing a fluted end-to-end anastomosis had been unfavorable and was similar to the experience of Dale (1962). In July 1973 we were forced to improvise the technique of end-to-side anastomosis joining the end of a dacron prosthesis to the side of the vein graft for a femorodistal popliteal bypass. During the ensuing 15 months we have carried out this composite graft only when the greater saphenous vein was not of adequate size throughout. In 17 limbs the composite graft was placed between the common femoral artery and the distal popliteal artery and on 6 occasions to the posterior tibial and peroneal arteries. Nineteen limbs exhibited either gangrene, impending gangrene, ischemic ulceration or severe rest pain. In four extremities intermittent claudication of a progressive and disabling degree was the indication for operation. Eleven of the 22 patients were diabetic. Run-off beyond the popliteal artery was poor in 16 of the 23 limbs and inflow was subnormal in three patients. During the followup period, 10 grafts have occluded, one day to 6 1/2 months postoperatively, two due to inflow deficiency, 5 due to poor outflow, one to an error in technique, and two occluded without known cause. Two patients came to major amputation following closure of their grafts, 3 and 7 months postoperatively. Results with the composite graft are compared with the bovine heterograft and the homologous vein graft.
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PMID:New technique for construction of coposite Dacron vein grafts for femoro-distal popliteal bypass in the severely ischemic leg. 12 61

The results of extended deep femoral angioplasty (EDFA) have been alaysed for 74 legs in 72 patients. In 69 per cent a femoropopliteal bypass would have been possible, so DEFA is considered here as an alternative operation. The success rate was 66-9 per cent, the failure rate 25-6 per cent and no effect was achieved in 7-5 per cent. Diabetes adversely affected the results. Of the failures, 45 per cent were diabetic, while the incidence of diabetes was only 14 per cent in the group where the operation was successful. The long term results of the operation were reasonable, 75 per cent being successful for 10-39 months. Age had no bearing on success or failure. The effects of EDFA were most dramatic on intermittent claudication. In 52 per cent it was abolished and in 92 per cent claudication distance was increased to over 200 yards. Good results were achieved after failed lumbar sympathectomy and failed femoropopliteal bypass. Successful results of EDFA could be predicted best by inspection of angiograms. Success or failure could have been predicted from the state of the run-off in 81 per cent of the cases. Claudication and rest pain were the most relieved by EDFA, followed by isachaemic ulceration of the leg. Gangrene of digits was helped but less than had been hoped. We conclude that the indications for femoropopliteal bypass are limited to cases of digital gangrene where angiography shows that bypass is possible or where an EDFA operation has failed.
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PMID:Extended deep femoral angioplasty: an alternative to femoropopliteal bypass. 12 11

In the differential diagnosis of intermittent claudication some rare myopathies have to be considered. The most frequent is phosphorylase deficiency (McArdle's disease). Exercise-induced muscular pain, weakness, contractures and occasionally myoglobinuria are the most prominent clinical signs. Serum creatine phosphokinase, aldolase and lactic dehydrogenase may be elevated after exertion. In the ischemic forearm test there is no rise of serum lactic acid. The enzyme deficiency can be demonstrated by histochemical and biochemical examination of a muscle specimen. Further, but more infrequent, enzymatic disturbances of glycolysis are phosphofructokinase deficiency and phosphohexoisomerase inhibitor, which also yield an abnormal ischemic forearm test and must be demonstrated histochemically and biochemically. Apart from muscular signs, myopathy with lactic acidosis is associated with palpitation, dyspnea and exhaustion, and a disproportionate rise in serum lactic acid level after exertion. Histochemically and electronmicroscopically demonstrable fat accumulation in the muscle can be a sign of a disturbance in lipid metabolism. This type of exercise-induced myopathy has been reported only in a few cases with carnitine-pylmityltransferase deficiency, which has to be demonstrated biochemically. Muscular contractures also exercise-induced but painless and reversible within seconds may be due to deficient uptake of sarcoplasmic calcium in the tubular system. Dyskalemic paralysis causes painless paresis within minutes of hours after exertion, which disappears within hours to a few days. Myopathy with tubular aggregates can be differentiated from other exercise-induced myopathies by morphology. Myotonia combined with painful contractures characterizes myopathia myotonica.
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PMID:[Exercise-induced muscular weakness, myalgia and contractures. I. A clinical review]. 13 80

175 by-pass operations were performed for femoro-popliteal atherosclerosis during the period January 1967-April 1975. 154 were femoro-popliteal vein by-pass grafts. The material in addition includes 12 distal tibial arterial by-pass grafts, 6 homologous vein grafts, 2 Sparks prosthesis and 1 dacron graft. In the femoro-popliteal vein by-pass group 51% were operated for rest-pain or distal gangrene, while 49% had intermittent claudication. The 4 year patency rate in the two groups was 54% and 66% resepctively and was more favourable when the distal anastomosis was placed above than below the knee. However, the latter group had more severe ischaemic symptoms and the difference is probably in part due to case selection. The results were also more favourable when the proximal anastomosis was placed on the common femoral artery. The operative mortality was 38%. Vein by-pass to the lower leg arteries had a 2 year patency of only 34%. Semi-closed endarterectomy is preferred to homologous vein, Sparks prosthesis or dacron grafts where no sufficient vein for grafting exists. It is concluded that saphenous vein by-pass is the method of choice in patients where femoro-popliteal reconstruction is indicated.
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PMID:By-pass grafting for femoro-popliteal atherosclerosis. 14 81

Intermittent claudication of neurogenic origin can be traced to three basic causes: --either a chronic circulatory deficiency in the arteries leading to the spinal cord, whether these arteries be the site of an atheroma of the ostia, an inflammation or a loco-regional compression. In such cases, the claudication is painless which differentiates it from the arteritis claudication of the lower limbs. --or to a compression of the roots of the cauda equina and to a lesser degree of the spinal cord, through a narrow rachidian canal that is hereditary or acquired, and relative or absolute. --or finally to a sheathing peripheral neuropathy of the lower limbs. The two latter causes are accompanied by pain, and make it necessary to widen the classical notion of the intermittent claudication (Dejerine's non painful intermittent claudication of the spinal cord).
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PMID:[Neurogenic claudication and claudication by arteritis of the lower limbs]. 21 30

Deep femoral artery reconstruction was performed on 54 extremities. Best results were obtained in patients with severe rest pain and minor ischemic ulcerations. Intermittent claudication generally did not improve significantly. The mean operative flow to deep femoral artery was 170 mg/min. and the increase in peripheral pressure 20 mm Hg.
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PMID:Reconstruction of the deep femoral artery. 27 35

The blocking of trigger points in the calf by the local injection of an anesthetic agent was performed in 15 patients with intermittent claudication. Reactive and exercise hyperemia, work load and duration of exercise were recorded before and after infiltration of the trigger points. Reactive hyperemia does not change, but the exercise tolerance of the leg significantly improves after local blocking of the trigger areas and the exercise hyperemia increases because of the higher work load. The pain pattern of intermittent claudication can be activated by the summation of abnormal input from muscles, due to contraction in the presence of anoxia, with activity from trigger points. Local infiltration of trigger areas blocks theirir activity. The vicious cycle of pain is interrupted and the exercise tolerance of the leg is increased, without improving blood circulation.
Pain 1979 Apr
PMID:Fibrositic myofascial pain in intermittent claudication. Effect of anesthetic block of trigger points on exercise tolerance. 28 98

A peripheral arterial occlusive disease can be diagnosed by a clinical examination. Technical methods serve for documentation, definition of localization and differentiation of doubtful findings and special therapeutic measures. A definite sequence of diagnostic procedures simplifies diagnosis. History (risk factors), individual clinical or biochemical findings, intermittent claudication, pain at rest are important for the assessment of peripheral arterial circulation when considered with the appropriate differential diagnosis of various internal disease conditions, inspection, palpation and especially auscultation at rest and on effort. Ratschow's circulation test provides information on the degree of compensation. Mechanical or electronic oscillography and Doppler echography have proved valuable as technical methods for measuring post-stenotic pressure.
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PMID:[Practical diagnosis of arterial occlusive diseases of the lower extremities (author's transl)]. 41 7

O2 and CO2 tensions were measured in the gastrocnemius muscles of patients submitted for reconstructive arterial surgery due to obstructive arteriosclerosis (37) or abdominal aortic aneurysm (5). Four patients without signs of arterial ischaemia served as controls. Measurements were carried out by means of implanted silastic tonometers during breathing of air and 100% O2 and immediately after walking on a treadmill. Peripheral blood pressures in the ankles were recorded with a Doppler apparatus. Baseline tissue gas tensions showed no essential differences between the various groups of patients: intermittent claudication, pain at rest, praegangrene, abdominal aortic aneurysm and controls. In contrast, baseline ankle pressures correlated well with the severity of the disease. During breathing of oxygen, the smallest increases of muscle PO2 were observed in extremities with pain at rest or praegangrene and the highest responses were recorded in controls and aneurysm patients. Muscle PCO2 values showed no alterations during oxygen breathing. In physical exercise, muscle PO2 and PCO2 levels as well as ankle blood pressures remained unchanged in controls and patients with aneurysm but no claudication. However, in all groups with arterial ischaemia, the exercise test resulted in a profound fall of muscle PO2 and ankle blood pressure and an increase of muscle PCO2.
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PMID:Tissue gas tensions in the calf muscles of patients with lower limb arterial ischaemia. 43 76


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