Pulsatility index is better than ankle-brachial Doppler index for non-invasive detection of critical limb ischaemia in diabetes

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Janssen, Alfred ^a  

^a St Agatha Krankenhaus Koln gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical limb ischaemia; Diabetes mellitus; Medial arterial calcification; Peripheral arterial disease; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FONTAINE CLASSIFICATION; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LEG ULCER; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSATILITY INDEX; RELIABILITY; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; ANKLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIABETIC FOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 28344451516     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.34.4.235     Document Type: Article

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