The physiological response of ankle systolic blood pressure and ankle to brachial index after maximal exercise in athletes is dependent on age

12 januari 2007 The development of sports activities in the over forties has increased the number of middle-aged patients performing heavy-load exercise. The normal response of ankle systolic blood pressure (ASBP) and ankle to brachial index (ABI) to intense exercise...

Simultaneous arterial pressure recordings improve the detection of endofibrosis

01 november 2006 Purpose: Exercise improves the diagnostic performance of ankle-to-brachial index (ABI) in the detection of exercise-induced arterial endofibrosis (EIAE). Pressure values for all four limbs are required to calculate ABI, but rapid systemic pressure...

Past, present and future of arterial endofibrosis in athletes: a point of view

01 januari 2004 Exercise-induced arterial endofibrosis (EIAE) is now a 20-year-old concept. Initially observed in highly trained cyclists, it has been found in many other male and female endurance athletes. Most stenoses are located on the first centimetres of the...

Pressure measurements at rest and after heavy exercise to detect moderate arterial lesions in athletes

01 april 2001 Purpose: This study defined how ankle arterial blood pressure measurements should be analyzed for the detection of moderate arterial disease (asymptomatic while walking). We used external iliac artery endofibrosis as a unique model of an isolated...

External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis in a Young Cyclist

03 augustus 1999 An 18-year-old cyclist was referred to the laboratory for unexplained pain in his left lower limb during exercise. He had started competition at 14 years of age and had cycled ≈10 000 km/y in the preceding 5 years. He had complained for 18 months of a...

External iliac artery endofibrosis: a 40-year course

01 december 1997 External iliac artery endofibrosis is a rare disease affecting mainly highly trained cyclists. As the disease has only recently been described, the long term spontaneous evolution of external iliac artery endofibrosis is not known. We report a...

External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis in Athletes

01 oktober 1997 Atherosclerosis and inflammatory arterial diseases are rare in young people. Since the early 1980s, an increasing incidence of iliac arterial stenosis in competition cyclists has been reported. Histological findings in these individuals are specific,...

Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Sports

01 juli 1997 The recent description of exercise-induced intimal fibrosis affecting mainly the iliac artery (and therefore usually described as external iliac artery endofibrosis) has dramatically changed the diagnostic approach of unexplained recurrent lower limb...

Echography of external iliac artery endofibrosis in cyclists

01 november 1993 Forty-eight cyclists were studied for suspected external iliac artery endofibrosis with ultrasound B-mode imaging. In highly trained competition cyclists, symptoms of external iliac artery endofibrosis were characterized by lower limb claudication...