Notes on PAD
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Vascular claudication is angina in the legs: pain that starts when plaque narrows an artery enough that it cannot meet a working muscle’s demand for blood. One of the first English-language descriptions, from 1904, is still apt [1]:
“The patient while walking experiences paresthesia and pains in the feet; tension, pain or stiffness in the calves or even above... finally an increasing difficulty of locomotion that in increasingly shortening intervals causes the sufferer to stop completely and rest. After a short…
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