Peripheral Vascular Disease or PVD is chronic occlusive arterial disease. This disorder usually occurs in patients with an underlying atherosclerotic process.

Who gets PVD?
People that usually suffer from PVD are people that are in their 60’s to 70’s. It is also more often diagnosed in men than women.

What causes PVD?
In the simplest explanation, the reason that PVD occurs is because of lack of blood flow in the muscle tissue during exercise.

How do I know if I have PVD?
Pain that is usually associated with PVD develops in the leg, calf, thigh, foot, hip or buttocks after walking. This crap or muscle fatigue is so severe that you can not continue to walk. After some rest the symptoms seem to go away, but after you continue to walk they usually reoccur.

What can be done?
With new technology PVD can be treated with a non-invasive surgery such as angioplasty and stent implantation. These procedures are less stressful for you than vascular surgery is and it has been proven to effectively reduce disability.