Vascular Disease - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

It can be very difficult to make a vascular disease diagnosis as there are a wide variety of symptoms that a person can carry. Vascular diagnosis is primarily made upon the symptoms, family history and after a physical examination performed by a specialist.

The physical exam may be slightly different depending on the type of vascular disease that is suspected. In the case of a peripheral vascular disease the physical exam consists in checking the blood flow in the legs or flow or the blood pressure. During the physical examination of a cerebrovascular disease the doctor listens with the help of a stethoscope to detect abnormal sounds of blood flow (called bruit) on the neck.