Digital ischemia: Etiologies and long-term follow up. A cohort study of 323 patients

Abstract

Introduction Introduction Material and Methods Results Discussion Conclusion References Upper extremity digital ischemia (UEDI) is a persistent peripheral vascular disease. Diagnosis remains a real challenge to identify and consequently evaluation of etiologies and determination of therapeutic strategies has proved difficult. The incidence of UEDI is about 2 cases per 100,000 persons per year (1,2) with symptomatic ischemia of the upper extremity being encountered less frequently than lower extremity vascular insufficiency.\n\n\n\nThe main causes generally identified in literature are cardiac or arterial embolism, local thrombosis, systemic autoimmune connective tissue diseases (especially systemic sclerosis), vasculitis or traumatic injury (3).\n\nPast lite ...