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Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a narrowing of the arteries other than those that supply the heart or the brain.

When narrowing occurs in the heart it is called coronary artery disease while in the brain it is called cerebrovascular disease.

Peripheral artery disease most commonly affects the legs, but other arteries may also be involved.

The classic symptom is leg pain when walking which resolves with rest, known as intermittent claudication.

Other symptoms including skin ulcers, bluish skin, cold skin, or poor nail and hair growth may occur in the affected leg.

Complications may include an infection or tissue death which may require amputation; coronary artery disease, or stroke.

Up to 50% of cases of PAD are without symptoms.

Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated.

High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms.

Long term high blood pressure, however, is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease, stroke, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, vision loss, and chronic kidney disease.

In medicine, dialysis (from Greek διάλυσις, diàlysis, meaning dissolution, διά, dià, meaning through, and λύσις, lỳsis, meaning loosening or splitting) is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood and is used primarily as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with kidney failure.

Dialysis may be used for those with an acute disturbance in kidney function (acute kidney injury, previously acute renal failure) or progressive but chronically worsening kidney function—a state known as chronic kidney disease stage 5 (previously chronic kidney failure or end-stage renal disease).

The latter form may develop over months or years, but in contrast to acute kidney injury is not usually reversible and dialysis is regarded as a "holding measure" until a kidney transplant can be performed or sometimes as the only supportive measure in those for whom a transplant would be inappropriate.

Interventional radiology (IR), sometimes known as vascular and interventional radiology (VIR), is a medical sub-specialty which provides minimally invasive image-guided diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Although the range of procedures performed by interventional radiologists is broad, the unifying concept behind these procedures is the application of image guidance and minimally invasive techniques in order to minimize risk to the patient.

A stroke is when poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

There are two main types of stroke: ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and hemorrhagic, due to bleeding.

They result in part of the brain not functioning properly.

Signs and symptoms of a stroke may include an inability to move or feel on one side of the body, problems understanding or speaking, feeling like the world is spinning, or loss of vision to one side.

Signs and symptoms often appear soon after the stroke has occurred.

If symptoms last less than one or two hours it is known as a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or mini-stroke.

A hemorrhagic stroke may also be associated with a severe headache.

The symptoms of a stroke can be permanent.

Long-term complications may include pneumonia or loss of bladder control.