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Non-traumatic lower limb vascular complications in endurance athletes. Review of literature
Objectives: To review the importance, clinical features, investigations, management and prognosis of non-traumatic vascular injuries, affecting the lower limbs of endurance athletes. Design: Review of literature. Materials and methods: A literature...
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Past, present and future of arterial endofibrosis in athletes: a point of view
Exercise-induced arterial endofibrosis (EIAE) is now a 20-year-old concept. Initially observed in highly trained cyclists, it has been found in many other male and female endurance athletes. Most stenoses are located on the first centimetres of the...
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Approximately one in five top-level cyclists will develop sports-related flow limitations in the iliac arteries. These flow limitations may be caused by a vascular lumen narrowing due to endofibrotic thickening of the intima and/or by kinking of the...
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Background: There is increasing recognition that high-performance athletes can develop symptomatic arterial flow restriction in one or both (15%) legs due to kinking and/or endofibrosis of their iliac arteries. Methods: Case report and review based on...
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Background Athletes may present with arterial problems that are unusual in the typical patient with peripheral vascular disease. They are often handicapped only at the extremes of physical exertion and may have normal arterial pulses beyond any...
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External iliac artery endofibrosis: a new possible predisposing factor
External iliac artery endofibrosis (EIAE) is an uncommon disease that affects a large number of athletes. The pathogenesis of EIAE is unclear. We offer an additional possible cause, with a direct relationship between EIAE and psoas muscle hypertrophy....
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Objective: Avid competition bicycling may be associated with the development of external iliac artery stenosis. European studies have documented endofibrosis that primarily has affected young men. Our objective was to review the histopathologic...
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Flow limitations in the iliac arteries of endurance athletes during exercise were previously ascribed solely to intravascular lesions. We postulate that functional kinking of the arteries can also result in flow limitations. However, the diagnostic...
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Leg complaints at maximal exercise in endurance athletes may have many causes, including arterial flow limitations in the iliac arteries. Such flow limitations can evolve into serious health problems due to increasing intravascular obstruction or even...
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Purpose: Kinking of the iliac arteries can cause flow limitations in endurance athletes. Such kinking may be treated by surgical release of the iliac arteries. However, when the length of the iliac artery is excessive, this may not be effective....
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Background: Endurance athletes often have restrictions in flow in their iliac arteries during exercise. Such restrictions have previously been ascribed solely to intravascular lesions. We postulate that flow could also be restricted by functional...
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Diagnosing external iliac endofibrosis by postexercise ankle to arm index in cyclists
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine a noninvasive method of evaluating external iliac endofibrosis in cyclists. Methods: Eighteen highly trained male cyclists were divided into two groups: a pathology group (PG; 3 professional and 4 elite)...
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Claudicación intermitente en el adulto joven: arteriopatía no arteriosclerótica
Aim Intermittent claudication in young adults (ICYA) of a non-arteriosclerotic etiology is an infrequent disorder and this means that on many occasions diagnosis is delayed in generally active patients, leading to incapacity and loss of productivity....
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Purpose: This study compared ankle to brachial pressure indices (ABPI) before and after maximal exercise in three groups in order to investigate maximal exercise testing and ABPI as a useful procedure for the differential diagnosis of exercise-induced...
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Vascular complications in high-performance athletes
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate our experience with the diagnosis and management of vascular injuries in a group of high-performance athletes. Methods: Between June 1994 and June 2000, we treated 26 patients who sustained vascular...
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Purpose: This study defined how ankle arterial blood pressure measurements should be analyzed for the detection of moderate arterial disease (asymptomatic while walking). We used external iliac artery endofibrosis as a unique model of an isolated...
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In current medical practice new disease entities are encountered scarcely. However, sometimes due to progress in knowledge and especially due to application of new diagnostic techniques, unknown diseases may still be found and unravelled. The current...