INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Chronic ischemia of the lower extremities is extremely prevalent in Western societies and accounts for a significant amount of morbidity and mortality. Atherosclerosis, although not the…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen This chapter is intended to provide a clinically oriented discussion of proximal aortic disease emphasizing not only the more common problems seen in clinical practice such…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Loss of arm and hand function arguably carries higher morbidity than that of the leg, as there seems to be an unspoken stigma associated with arm…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Acute aortic syndrome presents challenging diagnostic and therapeutic disease. Intramural hematoma (IMH), penetrating aortic ulcer, aortic dissection (AD), and aneurysm can all have a similar clinical…
ACUTE LIMB ISCHEMIA Print Section Listen Acute arterial occlusion is one of the most devastating diseases in vascular surgery, resulting in limb loss, long-term morbidity, and death. Early recognition of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) caused by atherosclerotic occlusions that impair blood flow to the lower extremity is now recognized as a major health care problem. Despite…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Nearly 10% of the population older than 65 years has atherosclerotic lower extremity peripheral arterial disease. Older patients and those with risk factors may have up…
IN THE BEGINNING Print Section Listen In 1929, a 25-year-old intern named Werner Forssman was dissatisfied with the available methods of evaluating cardiac function at his hospital in Berlin. His…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The medical therapy of intermittent claudication is founded on two fundamental precepts (Table 34-1). The most compelling of these is that peripheral arterial disease is evidence…
FUNCTIONAL MECHANICS OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL VASCULAR FLOW Print Section Listen Describing pulsatile fluid systems mathematically is very complex. Hemodynamics can be defined as the physical factors that influence blood…
