Peripheral arterial disease is a common manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis that remains frequently unrecognised, partly because most affected people do not report classic intermittent claudication. The ankle–brachial index, the ratio of ankle to arm systolic pressure, has...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i4568
Non-healing wounds impose a substantial and rising clinical and economic burden, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy remains one of the most contested adjuncts in their management. Half a century of mechanistic work has established that intermittent hyperoxia raises dissolved plasma ox...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrimps/2026/v15i4417
Diabetic foot lesions are complex complications of diabetes mellitus arising from peripheral neuropathy, peripheral arterial disease, infection, repetitive mechanical stress and impaired tissue repair. Standard care remains centred on debridement, pressure offloading, infection c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrs/2026/v9i2425
Abdominal compartment syndrome is the clinical culmination of sustained pathological intra-abdominal pressure accompanied by new organ dysfunction. Although the syndrome is now recognised across trauma, emergency surgery, severe acute pancreatitis and medical intensive care, its...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrs/2026/v9i2421
The open abdomen has become an established strategy in the management of severe intra-abdominal catastrophe, whether arising from trauma, abdominal sepsis, vascular emergencies, or abdominal compartment syndrome. Over the past two decades, the technique has moved from a salvage m...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrs/2026/v9i2410
Critical limb ischaemia (CLI), increasingly designated chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) in contemporary vascular practice, represents the most severe manifestation of peripheral arterial disease and constitutes one of the foremost challenges in modern vascular medicine....
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Research Article10.9734/ajrs/2026/v9i2395