What is Peripheral vascular disease?
What is Peripheral vascular disease?
- Peripheral vascular disease: Disease of arteries supplying the legs or sometimes arms.
- Peripheral vascular disease: Hardening of the arteries of the leg is called peripheral
vascular disease. (Source: excerpt from Coronary Artery Disease (Easy to Read): NWHIC)
- Peripheral vascular disease: General or unspecified diseases of the blood vessels outside the heart. It is for diseases of the peripheral as opposed to the cardiac circulation.
Source - Diseases Database
Peripheral vascular disease: Introduction
Types of Peripheral vascular disease:
Types of Peripheral vascular disease:
How serious is Peripheral vascular disease?
Complications of Peripheral vascular disease:
see complications of Peripheral vascular disease
What causes Peripheral vascular disease?
Causes of Peripheral vascular disease: see causes of Peripheral vascular disease
Risk factors for Peripheral vascular disease:
see
risk factors for Peripheral vascular disease
What are the symptoms of Peripheral vascular disease?
Symptoms of Peripheral vascular disease:
see symptoms of Peripheral vascular disease
Complications of Peripheral vascular disease:
see complications of Peripheral vascular disease
Peripheral vascular disease: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Peripheral vascular disease.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Peripheral vascular disease.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Peripheral vascular disease:
see treatments for Peripheral vascular disease
Prevention of Peripheral vascular disease:
see prevention of Peripheral vascular disease
Research for Peripheral vascular disease:
see research for Peripheral vascular disease
Society issues for Peripheral vascular disease
Hospitalization statistics for Peripheral vascular disease:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Peripheral vascular disease:
- 0.19% (24,429) of hospital consultant episodes were for other peripheral vascular diseases in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 83% of hospital consultant episodes for other peripheral vascular diseases required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 59% of hospital consultant episodes for other peripheral vascular diseases were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 41% of hospital consultant episodes for other peripheral vascular diseases were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Peripheral vascular disease:
Organs and body systems related to Peripheral vascular disease include:
Name and Aliases of Peripheral vascular disease
Main name of condition: Peripheral vascular disease
Other names or spellings for Peripheral vascular disease:
PVD, Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), Peripheral arterial disease
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