PAD stands for Peripheral Arterial Disease. You are just not getting enough blood to your feet and legs. Who are at risk? The risk factors are smokers, high cholesterol, diabetes, family history of vascular disease, and high blood pressure. As a patient, you can work hard to decrease the blood pressure and cholesterol, get your diabetes under control, quit smoking, and walk, walk, and walk some more.
The video below talks us through the problem, how to test for it, and how to help the situation if we find ourselves in it.
Here is one of my patient's with terrible PAD. These toes were turning gangrene, and needed amputation. Only one side was problematic at the time.
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| Toe Gangrene prior to amputation |
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| Closer look at the dead toes. |
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| Post Amputation |
