FEMORAL POPLITEAL DISEASE: BYPASS
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 61-year-old man was referred to vascular surgery for a several-year history of bilateral lower extremity calf claudication at two blocks. His claudication symptoms were…
INNOMINATE AND SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 62-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with worsening digital ecchymosis of her second through fifth fingers of the left hand with progressive…
LIMB GANGRENE AND AMPUTATION
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 60-year-old man with past medical history significant for diabetes presented with a several-week history of a left-foot wound. The patient stated that a small…
AORTOILIAC OCCLUSIVE DISEASE: TREATMENT WITH STENTING
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 67-year-old man presented with a history of right hip and buttock claudication at one block distance for the past year. Over the past several…
AORTOILIAC DISEASE: OCCLUSION
PATIENT STORY Print Section Listen A 60-year-old woman with hypertension and a 40 pack-year smoking history presented to the emergency department with acute onset of right leg numbness and pallor….
HEART DISEASE AND PREGNANCY
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Less than 5% (0.2%-4%) of pregnancies in the western world are complicated by cardiovascular diseases;1 however, the incidence of cardiovascular disease in pregnancy is increasing. This…
ARTERIAL VASCULAR DISEASE IN WOMEN
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in women is an under-recognized, understudied, and undertreated disorder. The magnitude of this problem can be realized from the fact that 21%…
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE IN WOMEN
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in women.1 Nearly half-a-million women die each year in the United States from ischemic heart disease (IHD)…
HEART FAILURE IN WOMEN
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 31-year-old woman was admitted in a state of cardiogenic shock 6 months after she was diagnosed with nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Nearly 9 to 12 months…
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN WOMEN: GENDER MATTERS
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is rare and uniformly deadly disease characterized by extensive narrowing of the pulmonary vasculature, leading to progressive increases in pulmonary vascular resistance…
