A modified calculation of ankle-brachial pressure index is far more sensitive in the detection of peripheral arterial disease

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 531-536

  Schröder, Frank ^a   Diehm, Nicolas ^b   Kareem, Shiraz ^a   Ames, Michael ^a   Pira, Alessandro ^a   Zwettler, Uwe ^a   Lawall, Holger ^a   Diehm, Curt ^a  

^a Klinikum Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANKLE PRESSURE; ARM; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 33748196967     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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