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CSC Cardiac Nursing Subspecialty

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What are the contraindications of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the lower extremity?
  1. Hypertensive patients who have poor ventricular function
  2. Dyslipidemia
  3. Patients who are medically unstable or have diabetes, an arterial occlusion that has been present for a long time, poor distal run off
  4. Status post coronary angioplasty
Explanation
Answer: C - Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the lower extremity is contraindicated in patients who are medically unstable, if the arterial occlusion that has been present for a long time, if there is poor distal run off, or in patients who have diabetes.
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