First Approach for Aspirin Misuse Objective Screening

Asa Test ; un Nouvel Outil Dans le dépistage du Traitement Par Aspirine ? (This Official Titre is in French and Contains no Spelling Error. English Translation for it Would be : "ASA-test. A New Tool for the Screening of Aspirin Treatment")

prospective interventional study. The aim is to analyse the effect of usual ongoing treatments over the microvascular cutaneous response to galvanic current application (Current induced vasodilation ; CIV) on the forearm of subjects referred for ultrasound investigations due to suspicion of peripheral artery disease. Hypothesis is that the use of aspirin (even at low dose) abolishes the response .

At admission eligible patients are proposed to participate. Written consent is signed after complete oral and written explanation of the protocol is signed.

No register of non-included patients will be kept. In included patients, in parallel to the routine ultrasound investigation for which the patient is referred, microvascular investigation will be performed as explained later in arm description.

Usual ongoing treatments are obtained by history and recorded. The end of the visit is the end of the participation of the subjects.

Inclusion Criteria:

• subjects referred for investigation of peripheral arterial disease.
• Affiliation to the French National healthcare system
• French speaking patients
• Ability to stand still for half a minute.

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy
• inability to understand the study goal
• Patients protected by decision of law