Intermittent claudication in a professional rugby player.
Intermittent claudication in a professional rugby player is described. The typical features of a delayed and difficult diagnosis of an external iliac artery stenosis were found. The noninvasive diagnostic protocol used to investigate this young patient with a minimal arterial lesion enabled accurate localization and angioplasty to be performed at the same time as diagnostic angiography. The patient was symptom free with normal arterial pressures on follow-up. It is suggested that appropriate noninvasive investigations should be performed before angiography in young people with minimal lesions.
Bray
A E
AE
Cardio-Vascular Diagnostic Centre, Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia.
Lewis
W A
WA
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005538:Football; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D014463:Ultrasonography