2. Your patient is a 54 year old male who presents with bilateral leg pain that has been present for several months. He is a smoker so your consider peripheral artery disease as a potential etiology of his symptoms. His ABI comes back at 1.5. Which of the following is true about this patients findings?
A. This is a normal ABI
B. This ABI is abnormal.
C. This ABI is inaccurate. Smokers characteristically will have higher ABI's. This patient needs more sensitive studies such as angiography
D. We treat patients and not diagnostic tests. This patient should be started on Cilostazol empirically
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