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Leriche syndrome

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Leriche syndrome

 [lĕ-rēsh´]
fatigue in the hips, thighs, or calves on exercising, absence of femoral pulsations, impotence, and often pallor and coldness of the lower limbs, usually affecting males and due to chronic obstruction of the aortic bifurcation.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

Le·riche syn·drome

(lĕ-rēsh'),
aortoiliac occlusive disease producing distal ischemic symptoms and signs.
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reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome

A painful disorder in which there is evidence of overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system with trophic changes in skin.
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Le·riche syn·drome

(lĕ-rēsh' sin'drōm)
Aortoiliac occlusive disease producing distal ischemic symptoms and signs.
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Leriche,

René, French surgeon, 1879-1955.
Leriche forceps
Leriche operation - sympathetic denervation by arterial decortication. Synonym(s): periarterial sympathectomy
Leriche sympathectomy
Leriche syndrome - aortoiliac occlusive disease producing distal ischemic symptoms and signs.
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These findings determine the surgeon to temporize the surgical intervention for Leriche syndrome. The main priority in this case was represented by the critical stenoses of renal arteries that were managed through percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.
In the case of patients with Leriche syndrome, acute ischemia of the lower limbs has been reported when the IMA was used in bypass grafting.
A 56 year-old man with co-prevalence of Leriche syndrome and dilated cardiomyopathy: case report and review.
Leriche syndrome in a post-CABG patient
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