A | B |
Arteriosclerosis | aching, burning, or cramping of the legs |
Arteriosclerosis | Pain, weakness, or limping that increases with walking |
Intermittent claudication | Pain, weakness, or limping that increases with walking |
Arteriosclerosis | Pain increases when legs are elevated, resolves when they're lowered |
Arteriosclerosis | Hair loss and thickened nails on affected extremity. |
Arterial thrombus or embolism. | Pain, numbness, pallor or mottling, muscle spasm, pulselessness distal to the point of blockage,and increasing paralysis. |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | due to inflammation of smaller and midsized arteries, most commonly affecting the foot or hand |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | Typically occurs in patients with history of smoking |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | Intermittent attacks of pain in hands or feet |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | Cool, pale extremities |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | Intermittent claudication |
Buerger's disease/Throboangiitis Obliterans | Nail clubbing, ulcerations, and gangrene in late stages |
Raynaud's disease | Arteries go into spasm spontaneously or in response to cold or stress |
Raynaud's disease | Intermittent attacks |
Raynaud's disease | Digits turn white with initial vasospasm, then syanotic, then intensely red when vasospasm resolves and circulation resumes |
Raynaud's disease | Numbness, decreased sensation and pain |
Thrombophlebitis | formation of a blood clot on the vein wall. The clot forms when incompetent valves or decreased skeletal muscle founction drastically reduces blood return from the tissues |
Thrombophlebitis | Dull, aching pain in the affected extremity. |
Thrombophlebitis | Pain increases with weight bearing |
Thrombophlebitis | Slight fever, general malaise |
Thrombophlebitis | Rarely, cyanosis |
Chronic Venous insufficiency | Incompetence of venous valves and venous stasis for extented period of time |
Chronic Venous insufficiency | Lower leg edema |
Chronic Venous insufficiency | Discoloration of leg or foot |
Chronic Venous insufficiency | Hardness and possible stasis ulcers over inner aspect of ankle |
Varicose Leg Veins | Causes by heredity, standing for long periods, pregnancy or obstruction of deep leg veins |
Varicose Leg Veins | Large bluish veins |
Varicose Leg Veins | Severe pain, fatigue, and heavy feeling in leg |
Varicose Leg Veins | Itching and burning |
Varicose Leg Veins | In later stages, stasis ulcers |