Abstract
In their outpatient practice, cardiologists are most frequently faced with obliterative arterial disease and the treatment of acute phlebothrombosis. They use anticoagulant therapy to prevent systemic embolism in high-risk patients, i.e. to prevent acute arterial ischemia.
Less frequently, cardiologists encounter venous hypertension and its accompanying skin changes and oedemas, superficial thrombophlebitis or lymphedema. In the case of Raynaud's syndrome, it is necessary to exclude other systemic diseases and treatment itself is often difficult.
In patients with systemic symptoms of inflammation it is necessary to keep in mind the possible increasing incidence of vasculitis involving the large arteries and attaining the aorta. In emergency situations, aortic dissection should be taken into consideration in the differential diagnosis of chest pain