Cleofort V, Attal R, Sayegh J, Yannoutsos A, Lazareth I, Emmerich J, Priollet P. Evaluation of the ankle brachial index and toe brachial index for peripheral arterial disease diagnosis in patients over 70 years with lower limb ulcers.
J Med Vasc 2023;
48:11-17. [PMID:
37120264 DOI:
10.1016/j.jdmv.2023.01.002]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
The aim of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the ankle brachial index using pulsed Doppler, and the toe brachial index using laser Doppler, in comparison with the arterial Doppler ultrasound of the lower limbs as a reference test, in a population of non-diabetic subjects over 70 years old with lower limb ulcers and without chronic renal failure.
METHODS
We included 50 patients, 100 lower limbs from the vascular medicine department of the Paris Saint-Joseph hospital from December 2019 to May 2021.
RESULTS
We found a sensitivity of 54.5% for the ankle brachial index and a specificity of 67.6%. Regarding the toe brachial index, the sensitivity was 80.3% and the specificity 44.1%. We could explain the low sensitivity of the ankle brachial index in our population by the mediacalcosis of elderly subjects, avoidable with the measurement of the toe blood pressure index, which had a better sensitivity.
CONCLUSION
In a population of subjects over 70 years of age with a lower limb ulcer, without diabetes and without chronic renal failure, it would seem judicious to use the ankle brachial index in association with the toe brachial index for the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease, followed by an arterial Doppler ultrasound of the lower limbs in order to evaluate the lesion profile of patients with a result of less than 0.7 of toe brachial index.
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