Determination of the extent of lower-extremity peripheral arterial disease with color-assisted duplex sonography: comparison with angiography.

The Accuracy of a Volume Plethysmography System as Assessed by Contrast Angiography

“…It is unclear that Duplex is always correct when it disagrees with VPS. CA is well established to be a superior diagnostic tool to Duplex [1,6] and the data presented here showed that CA confirmed that all 37 patients with flow obstruction on their VPS test actually had peripheral artery disease. There were no false positive VPS results using CA as the gold standard.…”

Incidence of Peripheral Arterial Disease in Diabetic Foot Infection Patients: A Prospective Study

“…E-coli was the most common organism isolated from pus culture of affected foot 36% followed by streptococcus and proteus and some patients had mixed culture and agrees with studies by Wheat et al (18) 9,11,15 . Most common vessels affected were posterior tibial (60%) followed by dorsalis pedis artery in(50%) cases [21][22][23] . Lower values of ABPI were observed with worsening of ulcer grade on Wagner Classification [18][19][20] .…”

Guidelines for Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory Testing: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Vascular Medicine and Biology

“…35,36 Compared with the gold standard of arteriography, duplex Doppler evaluation used to detect significant stenoses in patients with proximal lower extremity arterial disease demonstrates a high sensitivity (82%) and specificity (92%). Use of color and pulsed wave Doppler 36,37 increases the sensitivity (87%-88%) and specificity (95%-99%) of stenosis identification.…”