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Falsely normalized ankle-brachial index despite the presence of lower-extremity peripheral artery disease: two case reports 

BACKGROUND: The ankle-brachial index measurement is used for screening and diagnosis of lower-extremity peripheral artery disease and cardiovascular risk assessment. However, the value is occasionally unreliable since the oscillometric ankle-brachial index can be elevated and falsely normalized desp...

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Autores principales: Maruhashi, Tatsuya, Matsui, Shogo, Yusoff, Farina Mohamad, Kishimoto, Shinji, Kajikawa, Masato, Higashi, Yukihito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34920746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-03155-z