Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5942316 Annals of Vascular Surgery 2014 24 Pages PDF
Abstract
A significant proportion of patients ≥80 years of age with PAD develop arterial disease in the infrapopliteal pattern in the absence of the traditional risk factors of smoking and DM. Our data also showed that this pattern of disease is significantly associated with tissue loss and critical limb ischemia, particularly in patients ≥80 years of age. Primary care providers need to be educated to suspect ischemic etiology for foot pain and ulcers in elderly patients not otherwise thought to have risk factors associated with PAD. Vascular specialists need to anticipate this pattern of disease when planning interventions. As smoking becomes less prevalent and as the population ages, octogenarians with severe infrapopliteal arterial occlusive disease will become a larger proportion of the patients treated by vascular specialists.
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