Abstract
Ischein haima, from the Greek, means to suppress blood. Ischaemic conditions in an extremity may imply anything from a slight claudication to an acute arrest of blood flow. Several expressions have been used and misused to describe a certain chronic limitation of the nutrition to an extremity, such as “Limb-threatening ischaemia”, “severe ischaemia”, “critical isehaemia” (Fig. 1).
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Norgren, L. (1990). Definition, Incidence and Epidemiology. In: Dormandy, J.A., Stock, G. (eds) Critical Leg Ischaemia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75625-2_2
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