Key result
Smoking cessation and exercise may relieve non-surgical PVD symptoms, while vasodilators and antiplatelets lack benefit.
Why the study?
Does non-surgical management provide symptomatic relief in patients with peripheral vascular disease?
Population
Patients with peripheral vascular disease (ischaemic limb that cannot be surgically treated)
Design
Review
Authors
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May support lifestyle measures over vasodilators or antiplatelets in non-surgical PVD; hypothesis-generating pending randomized trials.
Does non-surgical management provide symptomatic relief in patients with peripheral vascular disease?
Basic non-surgical management like smoking cessation and exercise offers some symptomatic relief for peripheral vascular disease, whereas vasodilators and antiplatelets show little benefit.
C A C Clyne (1980) studied this question. Smoking cessation, exercise, and withdrawing vasoconstrictors may provide symptomatic relief in non-surgical peripheral vascular disease, whereas vasodilators and antiplatelets offer little benefit.
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