Publications by authors named "Charlene Mc Carter"
Article Synopsis
- A study aimed to evaluate whether the postexercise criteria for diagnosing peripheral artery disease (PAD), recommended by the American Heart Association, consistently identify the same patients as the resting ankle-brachial index (ABI) method.
- Out of 31,663 patients analyzed, 35% were diagnosed with PAD based on their resting ABI, with notable variations in agreement among clinicians using postexercise criteria to diagnose PAD.
- The findings suggest that using postexercise criteria does not reliably pinpoint the same group of PAD patients, indicating a need for further research to improve the diagnostic process.
Objective: This study was conducted to determine the sensitivity and specificity of laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) measurements for digital obstructive arterial disease (DOAD) using angiography as the reference standard and to compare the accuracy of different classical tests used to assess DOAD. Diagnosis of vascular abnormalities at the digital level is challenging. Angiography is the gold standard for assessment of DOAD but is invasive and expensive to perform.
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