RefHelp - NHS Ayrshire and Arran
Signs & symptoms
- Pulsatile mass in the groin
- Pale
- Pain
- Perishing with cold
- Pallor
- Paraesthesia
- Pedal pulses- reduced/ absent
- Blue toes
Risk factors
- Known intermittent claudication
- Often associated with aneurysms elsewhere
- Vascular risk factors- smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, atherosclerosis
- Previous history/ family history of aneurysms
- Older males- more common#
- Connective tissue disease.