What problems and sign and symptom do Peripheral Arterial Disease causes?

It is commonly happened in the lower limb arteries. The decreased blood flow due to the narrowed arteries, can lead to the lower limbs pain, numbness, muscle fatigue or cramp. At the early stage of this disease, sign and symptom often occurred during walking, but when stop, the sign and symptom will disappear. This is called “Intermittent Claudication”.

If it is untreated, the blood flow will be nearly or completely blocked due to the plaque is being enlarged by accumulating fat or cholesterol on the inner wall of the affected artery. Limited blood supply will make the surrounding tissue dead, causing gangrene foot, and so increasing the infection risk of the affected limbs. At the late stage, critical ischemic limb can be as serious as amputation is required, in order to saving life under the critical situation. 

                                                                                                      

Those diabetic patients often suffer from Peripheral Arterial Disease. Their nerves are damaged due to diabetes, making patient’s sensation and vision poor. The foot problem is not able to discover easily at the early stage. Ultimately, critical ischemic limb (diabetic foot), one of the Peripheral Arterial Disease also happened on the diabetic patients.

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