[Doppler measurement of tibial pressure in the diagnosis of peripheral arteriopathies].

Reference is made to the importance of determining tibial artery pressure in the diagnosis of peripheral arterial insufficiencies of the lower limbs. A series of 83 cases in which a Doppler ultrasonography was used in its evaluation at rest and during the Strandness exercise test at the same time as oscillography is presented. The Doppler examination proved far more sensitive in the detection of slight arterial insufficiencies, including those devoid of clinical symptoms in some cases. There was also a parallel between the Doppler findings and the metabolic picture in one group of patients, together with a certain correspondence with dyslipidaemia. Emphasis is placed on the importance of determining tibial artery pressure. This simple diagnostic examination can easily be performed, even by the general practitioner.