Non-traumatic lower limb vascular complications in endurance athletes. Review of literature

01 juli 2004 Objectives: To review the importance, clinical features, investigations, management and prognosis of non-traumatic vascular injuries, affecting the lower limbs of endurance athletes. Design: Review of literature. Materials and methods: A literature...

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...

Sports-related flow limitations in the iliac arteries in endurance athletes: aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and future developments

01 januari 2004 Approximately one in five top-level cyclists will develop sports-related flow limitations in the iliac arteries. These flow limitations may be caused by a vascular lumen narrowing due to endofibrotic thickening of the intima and/or by kinking of the...

External Iliac Endofibrosis in Endurance Athletes: A Novel Case in an Endurance Runner and a Review of the Literature

01 december 2003 Background: There is increasing recognition that high-performance athletes can develop symptomatic arterial flow restriction in one or both (15%) legs due to kinking and/or endofibrosis of their iliac arteries. Methods: Case report and review based on...

Arterial problems in athletes

07 oktober 2003 Background Athletes may present with arterial problems that are unusual in the typical patient with peripheral vascular disease. They are often handicapped only at the extremes of physical exertion and may have normal arterial pulses beyond any...

Flow limitations in the iliac arteries in endurance athletes. Current knowledge and directions for the future

01 oktober 1999 Pain and powerless feeling in the leg during cycling may indicate a serious problem that limits the performance in cyclists. Apart from the well-known muscular and neurological origin, such complaints can also be attributed to flow limitations in the...

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...