Full Description
Recognized experts comprehensively review the clinical, surgical, radiological, and scientific aspects of atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease (PAD), including endovascular, gene, and drug therapies. In their far-ranging discussions, the authors examine in depth the risk factors and antiplatelet therapies for PAD patients at high risk for suffering a heart attack and/or and stroke, the question of exercise rehabilitation, the surgical approaches to revascularization, and the preoperative evaluation and perioperative management of the vascular patient. Completing this detailed overview is important information on ameliorating the risk factors for PAD, its pathogenesis and epidemiology, and the physiological and pathophysiological basis of available diagnostic tests.
Contents
1 Etiology and Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis.- 2 The Epidemiology and Natural History of Peripheral Arterial Disease.- 3 Clinical Evaluation of Intermittent Claudication.- 4 Hemodynamics and the Vascular Laboratory.- 5 Vascular Imaging with X-Ray, Magnetic Resonance, and Computer Tomography Angiography.- 6 Chronic Critical Limb Ischemia: Diagnosis and Treatment.- 7 Acute Limb Ischemia.- 8 Exercise Rehabilitation for Intermittent Claudication.- 9 Treatment of Risk Factors and Antiplatelet Therapy.- 10 Pharmacotherapy for Intermittent Claudication.- 11 Angiogenesis and Gene Therapy.- 12 Endovascular Therapy.- 13 Surgical Revascularization.- 14 Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation and Management for Vascular Surgery.- 15 Special Consideration for the Diabetic Foot.- 16 Arterial Vascular Disease in Women.- 17 Atheromatous Embolism.- 18 Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger's Disease).- 19 Large-Vessel Vasculitis.
