Teaching Points
- A medical emergency whose diagnosis is based initially on history and examination features (atrial fibrillation, no history of claudication and presence of arterial pulses on contralateral lower limb). If these features are present then one should consider the diagnosis and proceed directly to surgery
- Investigation of suspected ‘Acute Ischaemic Limb’ is based on an Angiogram, which enables diagnostic as well therapeutic interventions
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