History Taking and Management of a Patient Presenting with Leg Pain During Physical Activity “Claudication”

Areas to focus on: Intermittent claudication is reproducible muscular pain with ambulation that is relieved with rest due to peripheral arterial disease, while chronic limb-threatening ischemia is a clinical syndrome that is defined by the presence of peripheral artery disease in combination with rest pain, gangrene, or a lower limb ulceration for more than 2 weeks (Leriche syndrome being intermittent claudication in the buttocks, pale, cold legs, sexual impotence, and absent femoral pulses).