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