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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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Arteriële insufficiëntie bij sporters op basis van endofibrose
Arteriële insufficiëntie van de onderste extremiteiten bij sporters wordt niet altijd herkend en kan berusten op endofibrose van meestal de a. iliaca externa. Bij klachten van een zwaar, moe of verlammend gevoel en/of pijn bij intensieve...
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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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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...
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External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis in a Young Cyclist
An 18-year-old cyclist was referred to the laboratory for unexplained pain in his left lower limb during exercise. He had started competition at 14 years of age and had cycled ≈10 000 km/y in the preceding 5 years. He had complained for 18 months of a...
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Endofibrosis of the External Iliac Artery in Sportsmen Clinical Review and Four New Cases
Endofibrosis of the external iliac artery is an unusual condition associated with competition cyclists. There seems to be a good prognosis after surgical therapy, consisting of endarterectomy and vein patching in combination with resection if the...
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Explorations vasculaires non vulnérantes chez le sportif
Background. The present article is a review of clinical diagnoses that are to be investigated when a vascular origin of unexplained lower limb pain is suspected, and of the usual results of non-invasive vascular investigations. Results. While suffering...
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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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External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis in Athletes
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,...
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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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Lower Extremity Arterial Disease in Sports
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...
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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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Echography of external iliac artery endofibrosis in cyclists
Forty-eight cyclists were studied for suspected external iliac artery endofibrosis with ultrasound B-mode imaging. In highly trained competition cyclists, symptoms of external iliac artery endofibrosis were characterized by lower limb claudication...
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L'endofibrose de l'artère iliaque externe, survenant chez des cyclistes de moyen ou haut niveau, bien que de connaissance récente (Walder et coll., 1984, 1, 2) est maintenant une entité bien connue (Chevalier et coll., 3). Elle se manifeste...
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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...