Venous --
Upper or Lower Extremities
- Deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
- Edema
- Anti-coagulant therapy
evaluation
- Pain/tenderness
- Increased limb tenderness
- Pigment discoloration
- Pulmonary embolism
- Ulcers
- Increased warmth of extremity
Extracranial
(Carotid)/Intracranial
Arterial Duplex
- Carotid artery stenosis
- Cervical or carotid bruit
- Memory Loss
- Cluster type headache
- Loss of balance
- Vertigo
- Loss of vision/field cut
- Aphasia/dysphasia
- Previous stroke
- Increased vessel wall rigidity
found during palpation
- Motor or sensory deficit
- Diplopia
- Syncope
- Unilateral paresthesias
- Drop attacks
- Amaurosis Fugax (transient
monocular blindness)
- Fluctuating confusion

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Arterial -
Upper or lower extremities
- Aneurysm
-
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
-
Diabetic neuropathy
- Skin or nail infections
- Skin color changes or
ulcerations
- Pre- and post-operative
evaluation
- Claudication
- Leg pain, rest pain, night
cramps
- Bruits
- Absent or diminished distal or
pedal pulses
- Prediction of wound healing
- Distal extremity hair loss
- Gangrene
- Extreme weakness or fatigue
- Vasomotor instability
- Numbness
- Positive Allen's test
- Hypertension
Visceral Vascular
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
- By-pass Grafts
- Dialysis Grafts
- Organ transplant (kidney,
liver)
- Arterial inflow and venous
outflow
of pelvic, abdominal and retroperitoneal
organs

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