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Cyclist's iliac syndrome: temporary relief by balloon angioplasty
External iliac stenosis due to endofibrosis is a rare condition that predominantly affects top level cyclists. Short term symptomatic relief is reported in an Olympian after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, which was performed to allow the...
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Exercise induced leg pain in young athletes misdiagnosed as pain of musculo-skeletal origin
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Exercise-induced External Iliac Artery Intimal Fibrosis: Confirmation with Intravascular Ultrasound
EXTERNAL iliac artery intimal fibrosis is an uncommon entity that causes transient lower extremity ischemic symptoms in well-trained athletes, particularly cyclists. Diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion and is supported by noninvasive vascular...
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External iliac artery endofibrosis: a 40-year course
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...
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Endofibrosis de la arteria ilíaca externa.
Un ciclista de 23 años de edad y de categoria "élite" y que compite en carretera, nos consulta por un dolor a nivel del músculo vasto externo del cuadríceps de la pierna derecha. Este dolor es de aparición aguda, claudicante, relacionado con la...
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There have been recent reports of exercise induced claudication in endurance trained athletes attributed to narrowing of the external iliac artery. Most patients have been competitive cyclists, and intimal hyperplasia has been cited as the cause. The...
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Stenosis of the external iliac artery in healthy athletes, although uncommon, has been reported in competition cyclists. A case of a racing cyclist whose chronic vague leg symptoms were incorrectly attributed to L4/5 nerve root irritation is reported....
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External iliac artery stenosis in a young body builder
With increased interest in vigorous sports for competition or leisure, the number of related injuries has increased. Arterial complications are rare, but have been described in competition cyclists' and longdistance runners. We describe a case of...
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Dissection of the external iliac artery in highly trained athletes
We report a series of four acute external iliac artery dissections occurring in three patients within days of completion of ultraendurance athletic events. Acute dissection of the external iliac artery in highly trained athletes after competition has...
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Intermittent claudication in a professional rugby player
Intermittent claudication in a professional rugby player is described. The typical features of a delayed and difficult diagnosis of an external iliac artery stenosis were found. The noninvasive diagnostic protocol used to investigate this young patient...
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Two top class cyclists, 23 and 24, complained of intermittent acute claudica tion at maximal effort due to a stenotic endofibrosis of the external iliac artery. Symptoms disappeared after endarterectomy and venous patch arterioplasty. This pathology is...
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Onze cyclistes professionnels ont été examinés. Un de ceux-ci présente à 28 ans une insuffisance arté- rielle débutante des membres inférieurs, à prédomi- nance droite, très vraisemblablement de localisation iliaque, et a cessé ultérieurement la...
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External iliac artery thrombosis
On attendance at the neurovascular clinic at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, patients with the symptoms of intermittent claudication undergo a routine clinical examination which enables the underlying vascular disease to be assessed (Boyd et al.,...