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PATIENT HISTORY Print Section Listen A 47-year-old woman presented to the outpatient vascular clinic with a 1-year history of left leg pain that began with cramping in the left calf…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 16-year-old girl presented with painful right-leg varicosities. She was actively involved in several sports, and noticed increasingly painful varicosities in her posterior-lateral thigh and…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 28-year-old male athlete presented with increasing difficulty running, resulting in severe bilateral calf cramping. He consulted with orthopedics and neurosurgery with no definite etiology…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen On a routine medical examination, a 19-year-old man is found to have a mid systolic click followed by a heart murmur. His height is 78…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 76-year-old man presented to the emergency room (ER) with acute onset of coolness, pain, and pallor of the left lower extremity. The patient had…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 36-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with signs and symptoms of sepsis. He had a history of intravenous drug abuse as well as…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 23-year-old woman was seen in a vascular surgery clinic for a pulsatile mass over the calf for a few weeks’ duration. She recollected sustaining…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 26-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of a possible connective tissue disorder. She first came to medical attention in early childhood when she was…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 70-year-old obese man underwent cardiac catheterization for coronary stenting. He received dual antiplatelet therapy with the use of glycoprotein inhibitors during the intervention. He…

PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 72-year-old white man underwent a computed tomographic (CT) scan of the chest to evaluate a pulmonary nodule and incidentally found to have a 6-cm…