Aortoiliac occlusive disease

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**Aortoiliac occlusive disease**
*Classification & external resources*
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In medicine, aortoiliac occlusive disease, also known as Leriche's syndrome and Leriche syndrome, consists of atherosclerotic occlusive disease involving the abdominal aorta and or both of the iliac arteries.

1 Symptoms
2 Treatment
3 Discovery
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Symptoms

The syndrome is characterized by the triad of symptoms consisting of absent or diminished femoral pulses, claudication or pain with walking in the buttocks and legs and penile impotence.

[edit] Treatment

Aortoiliac bypass graft

[edit] Discovery

The condition was first described by Robert Graham in 1814 but the condition with its triad of symptoms was best ascribed to René Leriche.^{[citation needed]} Leriche was a surgeon in France who liked to link physiology with the anatomy of a condition. Leriche first published on the subject based on a patient he treated with the condition at the age of 30. Following treatment the 30 year old was able to walk with pain and maintain an erection.^{[citation needed]}