Thrombolysis and angioplasty for acute lower limb ischemia in Buerger's disease

Author(s):  
TimothyJ. Hodgson ◽  
PeterA. Gaines ◽  
JonathonD. Beard

Author(s):  
Dr. Ishant Kumar Chaurasia ◽  
Dr. Muffazzal Rassiwala

Patient admitted in Anand Hospital, Indore from 2017 Dec to 2018 Dec to a minimum of 50 cases. Total 1(2%) patient was found to have grade a abi, 13(26%) with grade b abi, 5(10%) patients with grade c abi and 31 (62%) patients with grade dabi. Color dopplerfindngs were consistent with clinical findings. In color doppler diagnosed atherosclerosis patients, 13 (50%) were those with raised serum cholesterol (grade a), 13 were grade b (<250mg/dl s. cholesterol) i.e. (50%). While in buerger's disease 9 were found to be grade a (37.5%) and 15 were found to be grade b (62.5%). Higher association of grade a (>250mg/dl) was found with atherosclerosis. Clinical study is very efficient, elaborative and explanatory in making the diagnosis of chronic lower limb ischemia and color doppler well conforms to the observations and deductions made by the clinical analysis in the study of PAD. Keywords: Chronic, Lower Limb, Ischemia & Colordoppler.



VASA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koutouzis ◽  
Sfyroeras ◽  
Moulakakis ◽  
Kontaras ◽  
Nikolaou ◽  
...  

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the presence, etiology and clinical significance of elevated troponin I in patients with acute upper or lower limb ischemia. The high sensitivity and specificity of cardiac troponin for the diagnosis of myocardial cell damage suggested a significant role for troponin in the patients investigated for this condition. The initial enthusiasm for the diagnostic potential of troponin was limited by the discovery that elevated cardiac troponin levels are also observed in conditions other than acute myocardial infarction, even conditions without obvious cardiac involvement. Patients and Methods: 71 consecutive patients participated in this study. 31 (44%) of them were men and mean age was 75.4 ± 10.3 years (range 44–92 years). 60 (85%) patients had acute lower limb ischemia and the remaining (11; 15%) had acute upper limb ischemia. Serial creatine kinase (CK), isoenzyme MB (CK-MB) and troponin I measurements were performed in all patients. Results: 33 (46%) patients had elevated peak troponin I (> 0.2 ng/ml) levels, all from the lower limb ischemia group (33/60 vs. 0/11 from the acute upper limb ischemia group; p = 0.04). Patients with lower limb ischemia had higher peak troponin I values than patients with upper limb ischemia (0.97 ± 2.3 [range 0.01–12.1] ng/ml vs. 0.04 ± 0.04 [0.01–0.14] ng/ml respectively; p = 0.003), higher peak CK values (2504 ± 7409 [range 42–45 940] U/ml vs. 340 ± 775 [range 34–2403] U/ml, p = 0.002, respectively, in the two groups) and peak CK-MB values (59.4 ± 84.5 [range 12–480] U/ml vs. 21.2 ± 9.1 [range 12–39] U/ml, respectively, in the two groups; p = 0.04). Peak cardiac troponin I levels were correlated with peak CK and CK-MB values. Conclusions: Patients with lower limb ischemia often have elevated troponin I without a primary cardiac source; this was not observed in patients presenting with acute upper limb ischemia. It is very important for these critically ill patients to focus on the main problem of acute limb ischemia and to attempt to treat the patient rather than the troponin elevation per se. Cardiac troponin elevation should not prevent physicians from providing immediate treatment for limb ischaemia to these patients, espescially when signs, symptoms and electrocardiographic findings preclude acute cardiac involvement.



VASA ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Di Pilla ◽  
Stefano Barco ◽  
Clara Sacco ◽  
Giovanni Barosi ◽  
Corrado Lodigiani

Summary: A 49-year-old man was diagnosed with pre-fibrotic myelofibrosis after acute left lower-limb ischemia requiring amputation and portal vein thrombosis. After surgery he developed heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) with venous thromboembolism, successfully treated with argatroban followed by dabigatran. Our systematic review of the literature supports the use of dabigatran for suspected HIT.



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2013 ◽  
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Magdalena Chudala ◽  
Katarzyna Drozdz ◽  
Pawel Gac ◽  
Tomasz Kuniej ◽  
Bozena Sapian-Raczkowska ◽  
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Maria T. Szewczyk ◽  
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Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-744 ◽  
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Dimitrios K. Tsetis ◽  
Asterios N. Katsamouris ◽  
Athanasios D. Giannoukas ◽  
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