Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) is a progressive and chronic disease resulting from atherosclerotic events. Atherosclerotic obstructions are consequence of chronic ischemia in the lower extremity arteries in patients with PVD. It is suggested that blood levels of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and endogenous Tissue inhibitors of Metalloproteinases (TIMPs) have been associated with atheroscl...

Introduction Given the frequency of renal functional impairment in patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and concerns about nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, there is growing interest in unenhanced MRA (1,2). While promising, existing unenhanced MRA methods suffer from limitations that preclude robust clinical application for PVD. An ideal unenhanced method should be fast, easy to use, a...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of diabetes mellitus (dm) on peripheral vascular disease (pvd) in patients with coronary artery disease (cad). methods: a total of 13702 consecutive patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) at tehran heart center between january 2002 and march 2007 were included in this study. the demographic data, pvd, and outcom...

AIM To establish whether the presence of a retinal break can be predicted either by the presence of a positive Shafer's sign (pigment granules in the anterior vitreous) or symptomatology in patients presenting with an acute posterior vitreous detachment (PVD). METHODS 200 eyes of 200 phakic patients with a symptomatic PVD of less than 1 month's duration underwent documentation of symptomatolo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the natural history and predictors of outcome of posthaemorrhagic ventriculomegaly in the very low birthweight (VLBW) infant. METHODS All VLBW infants admitted between September 1994 and September 1997 to the neonatal intensive care units of Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston), Children's Hospital (Boston), and Christchurch Women's Hospital (New Zealand) with germin...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to describe national peripheral vascular disease (PVD) risk and health burden, and vascular care capacity in Ghana. The gap between PVD burden and vascular care capacity in low- and middle-income countries was defined, and capacity improvement priorities were identified. METHODS Data to estimate PVD risk factor burden were obtained from the World Health Organizatio...

Method: We examined 81 eyes of 58 consecutive patients diagnosed as DME. The condition of the posterior wall of the posterior precortical vitreous pocket (PPVP) was classified into 4 groups based on 12-mm horizontal and vertical scans through the macula using SS-OCT. Classifications were: Group 1, no posterior vitreous detachments (PVDs); Group 2, perifoveal PVD; Group 3, macular PVD; and Group...

Cardiovascular care is big business for hospitals. Although a lot of attention and resources are directed to care and treatment of the coronary arteries, peripheral vascular disease (PVD) care has gained momentum. Even though the dollars spent on PVD care are significantly less than for cardiac, the patients are the same, and PVD care is an essential component of full-service cardiovascular car...

Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) has numerous modifiable risk factors. This study aimed to establish patients' awareness of risk factors and causes of PVD and their understanding of mechanisms of secondary prevention. A prospective survey of awareness of PVD among patients attending a tertiary vascular clinic for management of peripheral vascular disease was undertaken. Institutional review bo...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) remain highly prevalent in the population due to population ageing, smoking, diabetes, unhealthy lifestyles, and the epidemic of obesity, and frequently coexist. The management of combined CAD and PVD is a common challenge and brings with it numerous clinical dilemmas. The goal of this article is to review the prevalence of PVD...