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Who gets vascular disease?

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Smokers Diabetics Smoking Hypertension Diabetes mellitus High cholesterol Family history Renal failure Coronary/ carotid diseases

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How do you help RFs?

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Antiplatelets Statins RF modifications

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What is intermittent claudication?

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Cramping calf, thigh or buttock pain precipitated by exercise Pain is normally where the lesion is (calf, thigh, buttock) due to not meeting metabolic pain Relieved by rest Reproducible – claudication distance

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What is intermittent claudication similar to?

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Similar to Nerve Root Compression, must differentiate

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How does intermittent claudication affect people?

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80% chance of improving/stable 20% chance of getting worse 5% - intervention, 1% -major amputation 15% - dead 5 years stroke/MI Impact on social function, QOL Prognosis worse if: DM, Smoking, Occlusive Disease below the knee

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What is critical limb pain?

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CLI= Rest pain requiring analgesia > 2 weeks, or tissue loss

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What does rest pain cause?

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In the Forefoot/toes Night Relieved by dependency Gangrene/ulceration

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How are interventions done in critical limb ischaemia?

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90% -intervention within 1 year 25% -major amputation 50% - dead within 5 years MI/Stroke

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How does claudication result in limb ischaemia?

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Which of the following describes ischaemic rest pain?

A. It is cramping in nature


B. It is typically felt in the calf at night


C. It indicates impending limb loss


D. It is relieved by leg elevation

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C. It indicates impending limb loss


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What is ABPI?

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ANKLE BRACHIAL PRESSURE INDEX

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What is normal ABPI?

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0.9-1.0

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What are the normals levels of ABPI?

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  • Claudication 0.6 to 0.9
  • Single level occlusion > 0.5
  • Multi level occlusion < 0.5
  • Rest pain/gangrene 0.3

Calcification can alter results – DIABETES

Incompressible arteries – spuriously high ankle pressures

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What imaging might you use?

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  • Duplex US
  • Angiography (Gold Standard)
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What are the pros and cons of duplex US?

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Advantages

  • Noninvasive
  • Fast/cheap
  • Few complications

Disadvantages

  • Dependent on ultrasonographers ability
  • Poor visualization below the knee
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What are the pros and cons of using angiography?

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Advantages

  • Gold standard for demonstrating anatomy
  • Provides therapeutic opportunities: eg.PTA

Disadvantages

• Invasive: risk of hemorrhage,

aneurysm,infection

• Contrast is nephrotoxic

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What type of pain does diabetic foot tend to be?

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45% Neuropathic

10% Ischaemic

45% Mixed

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What is ABCDE in treatment of intermittent claudication?

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  • Aspirin/ Antiplatelets
  • Blood Pressure control
  • Cholesterol control (statins)
  • Diabetic control
  • Exercise
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How do you treat critical limb ischaemia?

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  • Angiography
  • Intrainguinal procedures
  • Endovascular management
  • Reversed or in situ vein
  • Dacron / PTFE
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Where do you go in intrainguinal procedures?

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Femoral

  • Above knee Popliteal
  • Below Knee popliteal
  • Anterior Tibial
  • Posterior Tibial
  • Peroneal

Popliteal - Pedal

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What are the 6 Ps of acute limb ischaemia?

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  • Pain
  • Pallor
  • Perishing Cold
  • Pulseless
  • Paraesthesia
  • Paralysis
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What is the intervention for acute limb ischaemia?

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Surgical intervention

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What makes an ischaemic limb viable, threatened or dead?

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  • Viable - No neurology, audible doppler at ankle
  • Threatened - Sensory loss, tense calf, no doppler
  • Dead - Complete neurological deficit, fixed mottling
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What are the causes of acute limb ischaemia?

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2 Important:

  1. Thrombus
  2. Embolus
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What are embolic events like?
* Sudden * No Hx PVD * Opposite limb normal * Identifiable source:–80% AF, 10% post MI, 10% aneurysm (aortic/popliteal)
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What are thrombolic events like?
* Sudden/less acute * Claudicant * Abnormalities in other limb
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What initial events would you use?
* FBC, Clotting, G+S * ECG * CXR * Cardiac enzymes * ABPI * Duplex * Angiogram
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What is the initial treatment of acute limb ischaemia?
* Analgesia * Heparin * Catheter * IV access + fluids * Consent
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What surgical/radiological intervention for acute limb ischaemia?
Embolectomy (with a fogarty catheter) +/- fasciotomies Thrombectomy Thrombolysis
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What is an aneurysm?
Dilatation of artery in question of more than 50% increas of normal diameter of that vessel
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What are true and false aneurysms?
True- All layers involved False- not all layers involved
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Shapes of aneurysms
Fusiform Saccular
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What is the classification of aneurysms?
Location (Relationship to renal A's, clinically infrarenal) Aetiology (Atherosclerotic, inflammatory, syphilitic, TB, surgical sieve)
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What is the epidemiology of aneurysms?
Men over 65 M:F 8:1 Incidence rising (ageing and imaging) AAA common cause of sudden death Most AAAs asymptomatic until they rupture, 75% die before getting to hospital
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RFs?
Smoking - OR = 5 ADAM HTN Diameter Atherosclerosis
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Who ruptures more?
Females 3:1 (rupture at smaller diameters)
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How do you find AAA?
Incidental findings screening
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Clinical presentation of AAA?
Skinny patient- mass with expansilitiy Ache- abdo, back, flanks and tenderness over point Rupture risk increased with pain Acute- embolus of mural thrombus (sudden acute ischaemia, insidious IC/ ulceration/ rest pain) Can have fistulas (aorta/ enteric, aorta/ caval)
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Imaging for AAA?
- DUPLEX US - CT - ANGIOGRAPHY
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What do you need to think about for the patient pre operatively?
Age over 80 doubled mortality Resp assessment (often smokers) Renal Assessment Cardiac risk Asymptomatic CAS
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What are the surgical interventions for AAA?
- Open repair - Endovascular procedure
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What are the complications of a stent?
- Stent migration - Endoleak Type 1 between stendt graft and AAA wall Type 2 Retrograde flow from aortic branches Type 3 Graft failure Type 4 Graft wall porosity Type 5 Endotension
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Which of the following is not true with respect to ABPI measurements? A. ABPI\< 0.9 almost always indicates significant arterial disease 
B. Claudicants have on average ABPI of 0.6 
C. In limbs with rest pain and gangrene the ABPI is typically 0.3 
D. ABPI is the investigation of choice in diabetics

D. ABPI is the investigation of choice in diabetics
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What is the most likely AAA rupture?
Infrarenal
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How to treat chronic incompetent veins causing venous ulcers?
Laser ablation of incompetent veins then 4 layer compression bandages
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