[An outpatient contingent of patients with chronic arterial obliterating diseases of the extremities].
Case records of 2135 outpatients referred to a specialized department with a provisional diagnosis of limb arterial affection have been analyzed. It appeared that in 35% of the cases the diagnosis was erroneous, the complaints being due to neurological and locomotor disturbances. Nosological entities of confirmed vascular diseases were the following: obliterating atherosclerosis (81.8%), obliterating peripheral aortic arteritis (9%), obliterating atherosclerosis associated with diabetic angiopathy (6%), obliterating thromboangiitis (1.6%), Raynaud's disease (1.6%). The disease-specific age pattern showed that obliterating atherosclerosis and age-specific cholesterol levels have the same trends, that there may be transformation of obliterating thromboangiitis into nonspecific aortic arteritis which eventuates in advanced age into obliterating atherosclerosis.
Koshkin
V M
VM
Bogdanets
L I
LI
Khaev
S Kh
SKh
Dibirov
A D
AD
D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017678:Sex Distribution
Ob ambulatornom kontingente bol'nykh khronicheskimi obliteriruriushchimi zabolevaniiami arteriĭ konechnosteĭ.