Intermittent Claudication

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine
Alan T Hirsch, Laura M Reich

Abstract

Intermittent claudication is the most common symptom in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). As such, it is mandatory for clinicians to treat both the PAD-specific symptoms (to decrease functional impairment and thereby improve quality- of-life, as well as to decrease rates of amputation) and the underlying systemic atherosclerosis (and thereby reduce cardiovascular ischemic events, especially myocardial infarction and stroke). Most patients with claudication can successfully decrease their exertional limb symptoms via a combination of exercise (preferably supervised) and pharmacotherapeutic interventions (eg, cilostazol). Endovascular revascularization currently serves as an effective therapy for patients with high-grade stenoses of the proximal limb arterial segments, (eg, the distal aorta, common iliac artery, or external iliac artery, and occasionally the proximal common femoral artery). Surgical revascularization usually is reserved for patients who present with severe aortoiliac disease in whom long-term patency is likely to be achieved (eg, aortobifemoral or femoral-femoral bypass) and who have a low cardiovascular perioperative ischemic risk. Patients who undergo successful revascularization also are likely ...Continue Reading

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