Peripheral Non-atherosclerotic Arterial Disorders: What Radiologists Need to Know
  • Title: Peripheral Non-atherosclerotic Arterial Disorders: What Radiologists Need to Know
  • Open Access: Nee
  • Language: English
  • Year: 2017
  • DOI/URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2016.11.009
  • Publication Date: 01-04-2017
  • Journal: Elsevier - Academic Radiology
  • Authors:

    Tariq Ali, Miltiadis E. Krokidis and Andrew Winterbottom

  • Pubmed ID: 27940229

Peripheral non-atherosclerotic arterial disorders (NAADs) are a heterogeneous group of rather uncommon conditions that tend to manifest in subjects without atherosclerosis. Each of these conditions has distinctive pathophysiology; however, there are some common clinical and radiological characteristics and in some cases a common treatment approach that unifies these conditions to a specific group, hence the NAADs. Clinicians and radiologists often fail to recognize NAADs, and there might be a delay in the management of such patients; this may result in seriously adverse outcomes that could otherwise have been avoided or minimized. Knowledge of these conditions and of their radiological appearances is therefore important to help establish a correct diagnosis to allow the prompt initiation of treatment. The purpose of this pictorial review is to present a selection of NAADs cases and to discuss the radiological characteristics and the most common lines of therapeutic approaches.