Doppler Ultrasonography Screening of the Lower Limbs in Patient with Coronary Artery Disease

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Rachid Merghit Mouloud AIT Athmane Ikhlas Gueriane Abdelhak Lakehal

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Rachid Merghit
Cardiology Service, University Hospital Center, Ali Mendjli Constantine, 25000, Algeria

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Introduction: For patient with coronary artery disease (CAD), peripheral artery disease (PAD) is really underestimated. Objectives: Establish a mapping of atherosclerotic involvement of the lower limbs using ultrasound exploration, by working on a sample of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients, recruited in cardiology at the university hospital centers of the city of Constantine. Patients and Methods: Our study is descriptive, transversal, and multi-centric carried out in unit of cardiovascular explorations of the University Hospital of Constantine. The patients involved had at least one significant coronary lesion ≥ 50 on a principal coronary artery. All of our patients benefited from a lower limb Doppler ultrasonography using a 12L linear scanning probe on a General Electric vivid E9 ultrasound system. The data processing and processing used epi info 8 software. Results: Atheromatous affection and implication of the lower limbs is very common and usual in patient with coronary artery disease (CAD), mostly on the infra popliteal floor. 34.67% have a hemodynamic lesion ≥ 50% on the arterial axes of the lower limbs. Taking the lion’s share, with more than half of our population had predominantly distal mediacalcosis lesions. Conclusion: Atherothrombotic disease or atherothrombosis demands a global patient care since for a long time and for as long as anyone can remember, the clinical translations and manifestations of atherothrombosis were treated in isolation and compartmentalized.

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Received: Tue 01, Sep 2020
Accepted: Tue 06, Oct 2020
Published: Mon 19, Oct 2020

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© 2023 Rachid Merghit. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.CDM.2020.01.05