Concomitant chronic venous insufficiency in patients with peripheral artery disease: insights from MR angiography.
Felix AmmermannFelix G MeinelEbba BellerAnke BusseFelix StreckenbachChristine TeichertMalte WeinrichAndreas NeumannMarc-André WeberThomas HellerPublished in: European radiology (2020)
• In total, 21% of patients with PAD patients examined with MR angiography show signs of possible co-existing CVI. • Patients with co-existing CVI were 1.7-fold more likely to have a clinical diagnosis of stage IV PAD. • Our data also showed that co-existing chronic venous insufficiency is under-diagnosed in patients with PAD.