Chapter 38 Acute and Chronic Aortic Dissection Medical Management, Surgical Management, Endovascular Management, and Results Juan Carlos Jimenez Aortic dissection is one of the most complex clinical conditions encountered by…
Chapter 26 Surgical Management of Femoral, Popliteal, and Tibial Arterial Occlusive Disease Frank J. Veith, Neal S. Cayne, Nicholas J. Gargiulo, Evan C. Lipsitz, Enrico Ascher This chapter discusses open…
Chapter 40 Endovascular Repair of Juxtarenal (Chimney), Infrarenal, and Iliac Artery Aneurysms Grace J. Wang, Jon S. Matsumura, Ronald M. Fairman In 1991, Parodi and colleagues1 published a seminal study…
Chapter 20 Endovascular Repair of Extracranial Cerebrovascular Lesions W. Austin Blevins, Jr. , Peter A. Schneider Each year in the United States, nearly 800,000 individuals experience a new or recurrent…
Chapter 49 Surgical Management of Chronic Venous Obstruction Nitin Garg, Peter Gloviczki Reconstruction of the occluded iliofemoral vein or the inferior vena cava (IVC) may be required in patients with…
Chapter 44 Aneurysms of the Peripheral Arteries D. Preston Flanigan Peripheral arterial aneurysms are distinctly less common than aortic aneurysms but can cause significant morbidity. Although these lesions occasionally lead…
Chapter 10 Primary Arterial Infections and Antibiotic Prophylaxis Hugh A. Gelabert Primary Arterial Infections A primary arterial infection is a condition in which an infectious agent invades and destroys the…
Chapter 11 Influence of Diabetes Mellitus on Vascular Disease and Its Complications Charles M. Peterson* Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous collection of syndromes characterized by hyperglycemia. It is described in…
Chapter 42 Laparoscopic Aortic Surgery for Aneurysm and Occlusive Disease Technique and Results Ralf Kolvenbach, Catherine Cagiannos The initial enthusiasm of endovascular procedures to safely exclude abdominal aortic aneurysms is…
Chapter 32 Natural History and Nonoperative Treatment of Chronic Lower Extremity Ischemia Amir F. Azarbal, Erica L. Mitchell, Gregory J. Landry, Gregory L. Moneta Despite the focus on operative and…
