VASA. Zeitschrift für Gefässkrankheiten.
Publisher:
Hans Huber. Bern : Hogrefe AG
Frequency: Six no. a year, 2011-
Country: Switzerland
Language: ger
Author(s):
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Angiologie., Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Phlebologie., Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angiologie., Österreichische Gesellschaft für Angiologie., Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gefässchirurgie., Österreichische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Morphologische und Funktionelle Atheroskleroseforschung, Societas Phlebologica Scandinavica.
Start Year:1972 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0301-1526 (Print) 1664-2872 (Electronic) 0301-1526 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0317051 |
| (OCoLC): | 01463487 |
| (DNLM): | V00760000(s) |
| Coden: | VASAAH |
| LCCN: | sn 86013032 |
| Classification: | W1 V101C |
The “galloping” history of intermittent claudication. Intermittent claudication (IC) due to arterial occlusive disease was first diagnosed by the French veterinary surgeon Jean-François Bouley jeune in a horse drawing a cabriolet in the streets of Paris as early as 1831. The animal was repeatedly exercised and always started to limp with the hind legs at similar work loads. Autopsy revealed partially thrombosed aneurysm of the abdominal aorta and occlusions of both femoral arteries which were correctly identified as the cause of IC. In 1858 the famous neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot working at the Salpêtrière in Paris first discovered the cond...