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Aortoiliac occlusive disease



Aortoiliac occlusive disease
Classification & external resources
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  In medicine, aortoiliac occlusive disease, also known as Leriche's syndrome and Leriche syndrome, is atherosclerotic occlusive disease involving the abdominal aorta and/or both of the iliac arteries.

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Symptoms

Classically, it is described as a triad of symptoms consisting of:

  1. absent or diminished femoral pulses,
  2. claudication or pain with walking in the buttocks and legs and
  3. penile impotence.
  4. atrophy of the femoral muscles

Treatment

Discovery

The condition was first described by Robert Graham in 1814, but the condition with its triad of symptoms was ascribed to René Leriche.[citation needed] Leriche, a French surgeon, linked the pathophysiology with the anatomy of the condition. Leriche first published on the subject based on a patient he treated with the condition at the age of 30. Following treatment the 30 year old was able to walk without pain and maintain an erection.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Lee BY, Guerra J (1994). "Axillofemoral bypass graft in a spinal cord injured patient with impending gangrene". The Journal of the American Paraplegia Society 17 (4): 171-6. PMID 7869060.
  2. ^ McKinsey JF (1995). "Extra-anatomic reconstruction". Surg. Clin. North Am. 75 (4): 731-40. PMID 7638717.

See also

 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Aortoiliac_occlusive_disease". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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