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Assessment and Diagnosis
Outpatient wound clinic: lateral ankle ulcer
A 71-year-old man who smokes has a 2.0 × 1.8 cm round, punched-out ulcer over the right lateral malleolus with a pale base and scant exudate. His wound care clinician is considering compression for mild ankle edema and asks the wound care associate to assist with Doppler pressures.
Doppler systolic pressures (mm Hg)
Site
Right
Left
Brachial
142
136
Dorsalis pedis
98
130
Posterior tibial
88
126
Using the pressures in the table, what is the right-leg ankle–brachial index?