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What Could Inability To Take Blood Pressure Reading On Left Arm Indicate?
What is the problem with not being able to get blood pressure readings in your left arm? I am 67 yrs. of age and weigh 264. I am on blood pressure medicine. There is a large amount of heart trouble in our family. My father had a massive heart attach at age 60 and died at 61. My oldest sister died on the table with open heart surgery at the age of 65.
My middle sister has had open heart surgery and she has a difibilator and pace maker. She is 70 and had this surgery when she was about 67. She never smoked and was not over weight. My oldest sister and I both smoked and both overweight.
My middle sister has had open heart surgery and she has a difibilator and pace maker. She is 70 and had this surgery when she was about 67. She never smoked and was not over weight. My oldest sister and I both smoked and both overweight.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Any causes are there like coarctation of aorta ..subclavian artery stenosis ...aortic dissection , peripheral artery disease but difficult to predict without clinical examination....we can do arterial ultrasound of left limb or CT angiography...which will tell if any obstruction is there...