Complications and Treatment of Persistent Sciatic Arteries David J. O’Connor, Nicholas J. Gargiulo, III and Frank J. Veith The persistent sciatic artery (PSA), first described by Green in 1832, is…
Integrative Therapies in Vascular Disease Sara Warber Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is on the increase in America. The prevalence of CAM use among people with a diagnosis of…
Arteriographic Evaluation of Cerebrovascular Disease Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, Ronil V. Chandra, Daniel C. Oh, Albert J. Yoo and Joshua A. Hirsch Catheter-based angiography is considered the gold standard for imaging…
Pediatric Iatrogenic Vascular Injury Jonathan L. Eliason Pediatric injuries and accidents are the most common causes of childhood death, and nonfatal injuries are innumerable in this age group. Conversely, iatrogenic…
Transaortic Splanchnic Endarterectomy for Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia William P. Robinson and Louis M. Messina Management of chronic mesenteric ischemia remains a challenge because of the relative infrequency of this disease…
Biologic Therapies for Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia Richard J. Powell Critical limb ischemia (CLI) represents the most severe degree of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) manifesting by either ischemic rest…
Noninvasive Methods of Diagnosing Cardiac and Noncardiac Sources of Macroemboli Shipra Arya and John E. Rectenwald Peripheral arterial macroembolism is an important cause of acute limb ischemia. Identification of the…
Renal Vein Thrombosis Timothy J. Nypaver Renal vein thrombosis is an uncommon clinical condition that typically occurs in association with or as a consequence of the nephrotic syndrome, renal cell…
Below-Knee Amputation Kenneth E. McIntyre, Jr. Amputation is one of the oldest surgical procedures known to humans. The earliest forms of below-knee amputation (BKA) occurred on or near battlefields, where…
Open Surgical Treatment of Ruptured Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysms James T. McPhee and Michael Belkin Despite numerous medical and surgical technological advances in the past decade, rupture of an abdominal aortic…
