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White toe (arterial insufficiency toe)

5 P's:
Pale coloration
Pain (excruciating)
Paresthesia
Pulselessness
Warm compression and vasodilatory Patch to Proximal area
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---Samuel Atom Baek-Kim

Blue toe (microembolic toe)

CAVEMAN:
Cholesterol embolizations
Atrial fib with electricity or digitoxin
Valvular problems
Endocarditis
Mural thrimbosis
Aneurysm/ AV fistula
Nothing
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---Samuel Atom Baek-Kim

Peripheral vascular diseases

ABCDEF:
Atherosclerosis.
Buerger's disease (TAO)
Cyanosis/ Cold agglutinin/ Connective tissue disease (Raynaud's phenomenon)
Deep vein phlebothrombosis
Embolism
inFlammation of veins
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---Samuel Atom Baek-Kim

TIA: internal carotid vs. vertebrobasilar

MD vs. DPM
· Internal carotid:
Monocular blindness (amaurox fugax)
Dominant hemisphere (apahsia)
· The weakness or numbness is still less in the legs.
· Vetebrobasilar:
Diplopia/ Double blindness
Paralysis (quadriplesia)
Motor weakness (ipsilateral)
· Ataxia is characteristic in veterbrobasilar lesions.
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---Samuel Atom Baek-Kim Tuckahoe, New York