[Is it valuable to screen for peripheral arterial disease in patients with coronary artery diseases?].
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), symptomatic or not, is a marker of poor prognosis which is considered as an equivalent of secondary prevention. In patients with coronary artery disease, PAD is often ignored, despite it could be a marker of worsened outcome. It seems interesting to screen for PAD in patients with coronary artery disease in order to detect a particularly high risk sub group of patients who will benefit of an adapted adjustment of the therapeutic strategy.
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Cabinet de cardiologie, F-57100 Thionville, France. s.kownator@wanadoo.fr
D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D018579:Patient Selection; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015995:Prevalence; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D012720:Severity of Illness Index