coronatie.it - Peripheral arterial disease (Claudication)

Cardiologia Clinica ed Interventistica

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Causes of claudication

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Major cause

Atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis obliterans)

Other causes

Acute arterial disease (dissection, embolism, thrombosis, trauma)
Adventitial cystic disease
Aortic coarctation
Arterial fibrodysplasia
Arterial tumor
Ergot toxicity
Iliac endofibrosis of athletes
Occluded limb aneurysms
Popliteal-artery entrapment
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Radiation fibrosis
Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Takayasu's arteritis
Temporal arteritis
Thoracic outlet obstruction
Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease)
Vasospasm