Peripheral vascular Disease
Effectiveness of video assisted teaching program on level of knowledge regarding prevention of peripheral vascular disease among diabetic patients admitted in G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore
... Diabetic patients are high risk for developing peripheral vascular disease. Life style practices such as smoking, obesity, increases the risk. Nurses need to take up the responsibility to educate and ...
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Imaging of peripheral vascular disease
... imaging peripheral vascular disease (duplex ultrasound, computed tomog- raphy angiography, magnetic resonance angiography, and digital subtraction ...of peripheral vascular ...
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Usefulness of Pulse Oximetry and Ankle Brachial Index for Screening Asymptomatic Peripheral Vascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
... This is to certify that “USEFULNESS OF PULSE OXIMETRY AND ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX FOR SCREENING ASYMPTOMATIC PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE IN TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS” is a bonafide work done by Dr. A. S. ...
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Use of sulodexide in patients with peripheral vascular disease
... A number of concomitant cardiovascular diseases can affect middle-aged to elderly patients with peripheral vascular disease, resulting in polypharmacy in many cases. This has led to the study of the ...
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Pulse volume recording for peripheral vascular disease diagnosis in diabetes patients
... worse vascular disease than the value would imply in non-diabetic ...and peripheral vascular disease: diagnosis and management; 11–26; Copyright © 2014, with permission from ...
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A study of association of diabetic foot ulcers and peripheral vascular disease
... compromised. This results from multiple contributing factors. Peripheral neuropathy and ischemia from peripheral vascular disease (PVD) are noted to be the major underlying causes. In the ...
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Study of Prevalence of Peripheral Vascular Disease in Chronic Renal Failure
... Patients with PAD have a 15-30% 5 year mortality rate and two-to six fold increased risk of death from coronary heart disease. Mortality is highest in those with the most severe PAD. The likelihood of symptomatic ...
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Peripheral vascular disease assessment in the lower limb: a review of current and emerging non-invasive diagnostic methods
... Photo plethysmography (PPG), first introduced in the 1930 ′ s to assess the vascular sys- tem, uses an infrared light source and a light receptor to estimate the variation of blood volume [44]. There are two ...
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A study on the prevalence of peripheral vascular disease in diabetic foot ulcer patients
... occlusive disease are considered for lower extremity revascularization with open bypass surgery or endovascular stenting or angioplasty to optimize wound healing and limb ...
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Physiological effects of exercise in patients with peripheral vascular disease
... Chronic venous disease is a common cause of ulceration around the gaiter area (Nicolaides et al., 2008). Several factors might affect tissue viability and susceptibility to ulceration, but the structural and ...
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Effect of allopurinol on all cause mortality in adults with incident gout: propensity score–matched landmark analysis
... failure, peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, dementia, chronic pulmonary disease, rheumatologic disease, peptic ulcer disease, mild liver disease, ...
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Evaluation of Microvascular and Macrovascular complications in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
... Results: Maximum patients with diabetes were between 60 - 69 years of age. Of the total number of patients 49% were found to be hypertensive, 39% were found to be obese, 16% of the study population were smokers and 50% ...
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<p>Antidepressants and the risk of traumatic brain injury in the elderly: differences between individual agents</p>
... myocarditis, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, dementia, chronic pulmonary disease, pulmonary circulation disorders, rheumatic arthritis/collagen vascular disease, liver ...
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Prevalence of non-communicable diseases by age, gender and nationality in publicly funded primary care settings in Qatar
... All data were analysed using the ‘Statistical Package for the Social Sciences’ statistical software package. Basic descriptive statistics were used to analyse the population characteristics (age, gender and nationality; ...
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An exploratory phenomenological study exploring the experiences of people with systemic disease who have undergone lower limb amputation and its impact on their well being
... As various factors contribute to the occurrence of depression 5,6,8,10,11,12 and its persistence over time, establishing support for people who have undergone amputation is challenging. In the UK it is customary that ...
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... artery disease was defined on basis of changes in 12 lead resting echocardiogram and any documented past event of myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass grafting or any other invasive procedure to treat the ...
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The prevalance, epidemiology and risk factors for onychomycosis in hemodialysis patients
... example, peripheral vascular disease results in impaired wound healing and increased risk of infection, and peripheral neuropathy results in decreased ability to detect the presence and the ...
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Diabetic Foot Ulcer: A Review
... and peripheral vascular disease ...amputation, peripheral vascular disease and neuropathy but not socioeconomic status as the significant risk factors ...
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COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES MELLITUS AND AYURVEDA
... The breakdown of Diabetic foot was traditionally considered to result from peripheral vascular disease, peripheral neuropathy and infection. More recently other contributory causes such as ...
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Cardiovascular disease among patients attending a specialist diabetes clinic in Jamaica
... heart disease [CHD], cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease [PVD]), physical activity, alcohol consumption, and ...
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