Satyendra Dhar, MD @DharSaty · 2 years ago
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Acute and Critical Limb Ischemia Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI): • Severe form of PAD that includes limb
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Acute and Critical Limb Ischemia
Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI):
 • Severe form of PAD that includes limb pain at rest, nonhealing wounds, or tissue loss.
 • 1-year incidence of mortality & amputation is ~20%.
 • Prevalence is estimated at 1.3% (11% of all PAD cases).

Acute Limb Ischemia (ALI):
 • Rapid decrease in LE blood flow due to acute occlusion of peripheral artery or bypass graft.
 • Etiology is broadly divided into embolism & thrombosis with various comorbidities.
 • Abrupt pain, numbness, coldness of LE, & paresthesia, contracture, and irreversible purpura will appear with the exacerbation of ischemia.

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Satyendra Dhar, MD @DharSaty · 2 years ago
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