[Diagnosis of arterial occlusive disease: what does angiology have to offer?].

Peripheral arterial disease is common in the elderly patient. The clinical symptoms are varied from claudication to the acute ischemic syndrome. The diagnosis can be suspected from history and clinical examination. Additional investigations like leg pressure measurements, oscillography and duplex sonography confirm the diagnosis. These investigations further quantify the extent and the localisation of the occlusive disease and are needed to choose the treatment. Treatment modalities are conservative, interventional by catheters and surgical. Further angiographic examinations are rarely needed. The interdisciplinary approach together with surgeons and radiologists is most important.