[Peripheral arterial disease: Treatment].

[Peripheral arterial disease: Treatment].
Presse Med. 2017 Dec 19;:
Authors: Desormais I, Aboyans V, Pesteil F, Lacroix P
Abstract
Medical management of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients is aimed at limb symptom relief and reducing systemic major adverse events risk. For the first purpose: exercise therapy is recommended in case of claudication; multidisciplinary evaluation for surgical options is mandatory in case of critical limb ischaemia. Reducing cardiac and stroke risk can be achieved through: statin prescription in most of the cases; antiplatelet agents in symptomatic PAD patients; cardio-vascular risk factors control.
PMID: 29273182 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Presse Medicale - December 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Desormais I, Aboyans V, Pesteil F, Lacroix P Tags: Presse Med Source Type: research