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Symptoms of disease - Intermittent claudication

Intermittent claudication is manifested emergence of pain, feelings of fatigue and discomfort in the legs while walking. Sometimes this may not be a pain, but there are convulsions in the gastrocnemius muscles, weakness of the legs.

The degree of manifestation of intermittent lameness depends on the degree of impairment of blood circulation in tissues. In the initial stages of this symptom may occur when walking at a distance of over 1 km. The vaster the violation of blood circulation in the legs, which depends on the quantities ai length stenoses arteries, the stronger manifestations of myocardial ischemia feet. In the later stages of intermittent claudication is apparent even after the patient passed 100 meters. Intermittent claudication can be as one-sided (characteristic for an atherosclerosis), and double-sided (typical for endarteritis).

Which diseases there is Intermittent claudication

• Atherosclerosis
• Endarteritis

Which doctor should I contact if there is a Intermittent claudication

• Surgeon

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