title: [The lower limb of elderly patients (venous and arterial diseases)].
abstract: Elderly patients frequently suffer from vascular pathologies of the leg. In these more fragile patients, diagnostic work-up must cause as little trauma as possible. The clinical status and morphological appearance of the vessels make vascular investigations sometimes difficult to perform in the elderly. With arterial pathology, vascular imaging relies on numerous non invasive techniques (Duplex scan and vascular imaging techniques by reconstruction: helical CT and magnetic resonance angiography). The clinical exam, the evolution stage of arterial disease and these non invasive investigations must allow to select the patients that should benefit from an arteriography, more or less associated to revascularization. With thrombo-embolic pathology, venography has now been replaced by venous duplex scan of the lower limbs irrespective of the underlying thrombotic etiology.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Vasculaire, CHU Rangueil--TSA 50032--1, Toulouse. leger.ph@chu-toulouse.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Léger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paoli-Cazanave
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: El Hajj
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chabbert
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Otal
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Boccalon
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Joffre
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000175:diagnosis; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010690:Phlebography; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013924:Thrombophlebitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex