Peripheral Arterial Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Etiology and Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis

   • Markus C. Stühlinger, Philip S. Tsao

   Pages 1-19

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3. The Epidemiology and Natural History of Peripheral Arterial Disease

   • Lisa M. Bordeaux, Laura M. Reich, Alan T. Hirsch

   Pages 21-34

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4. Clinical Evaluation of Intermittent Claudication

   • Robert T. Eberhardt, Jay D. Coffman

   Pages 35-53

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5. Hemodynamics and the Vascular Laboratory

   • D. E. Strandness Jr.

   Pages 55-73

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6. Vascular Imaging with X-Ray, Magnetic Resonance, and Computed Tomography Angiography

   • John A. Kaufman

   Pages 75-92

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7. Chronic Critical Limb Ischemia

   • Frank A. Schmieder, Anthony J. Comerota

   Pages 93-118

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8. Acute Limb Ischemia

   • Jonathan L. Halperin

   Pages 119-144

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9. Exercise Rehabilitation for Intermittent Claudication

   • Timothy A. Bauer, William R. Hiatt

   Pages 145-157

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10. Treatment of Risk Factors and Antiplatelet Therapy

    • Emile R. Mohler III

    Pages 159-172

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11. Pharmacotherapy for Intermittent Claudication

    • Robert T. Eberhardt

    Pages 173-187

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12. Angiogenesis and Gene Therapy

    • Iris Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Isner

    Pages 189-201

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13. Endovascular Therapy

    • Christopher J. White

    Pages 203-223

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14. Surgical Revascularization

    • James O. Menzoian, Joseph D. Raffetto

    Pages 225-242

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15. Perioperative Cardiac Evaluation and Management for Vascular Surgery

    • Robert T. Eberhardt, April Nedeau

    Pages 243-264

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16. Special Consideration for the Diabetic Foot

    • Gary W. Gibbons, Geoffrey Habershaw

    Pages 265-279

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17. Arterial Vascular Disease in Women

    • Marie Gerhard-Herman

    Pages 281-291

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18. Atheromatous Embolism

    • Jay D. Coffman

    Pages 293-301

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19. Thromboangiitis Obliterans (Buerger’s Disease)

    • Jeffrey W. Olin

    Pages 303-318

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20. Large-Vessel Vasculitis

    • Eugene Y. Kissin, Peter A. Merkel

    Pages 319-345

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Although peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is often unrecognized or neglected by physicians, it affects twenty percent of older persons, causes considerable disability-including loss of limbs-and is an indicator of similar disease in the heart and other blood vessels. In Peripheral Arterial Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment, a panel of recognized experts comprehensively reviews the clinical, surgical, radiological, and scientific aspects of atheroscleotic peripheral arterial disease (PAD), large vessel vasculitis, and thromboangiitis, 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 in danger of a heart attack and/or stroke, the important role of exercise rehabilitation, the surgical and catheter-based approaches to revascularization, the preoperative evaluation, and the perioperative management of the vascular patient. They also discuss the special problems of peripheral arterial disease in women, management of the diabetic foot, large vessel vasculitis, thromboangiitis obliterans, and atheroembolism. 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.
Authoritative and comprehensive, Peripheral Arterial Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment provides a detailed accounting of the medical, surgical, and radiological aspects of peripheral arterial obstructive disease, empowering today's clinicians and specialists with the knowledge and skills necessary to diagnose and treat this important but often overlooked disorder.

• angiogenesis
• angiography
• atherosclerosis
• embolism
• gene therapy
• heart
• hemodynamics
• rehabilitation
• stroke
• surgery
• vascular disease

"This comprehensive textbook has a number of strengths. The editors have assembled as contributors a team of experts who emphasize the analysis of primary data from key studies in the field and who provide thorough reference lists...readers will also find valuable chapters on subjects that are rarely seen elsewhere, such as the one on arterial vascular disease in women...Peripheral Arterial Disease is an outstanding text book...On the bookshelves of scientists and clinicians in related disciplines and in multidisciplinary teams, this book will provide a state-of-the-art review of current knowledge of peripheral arterial disease, and it will undoubtedly remain an excellent reference for some years to come. "- The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE

"Information on the use of exercise rehabilitation for intermittent claudication is useful and extremely important for primary care physicians." -Annals of Internal Medicine

"The thrust of this book is that most treatments are limited and the overall emphasis is on prevention and management of all risk factors. This is a good book that brings together all of the available information in a readily accessible format." -Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

"...a comprehensive and useful review on peripheral arterial disease." - Acta Cardiologica

• Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, USA

  Jay D. Coffman, Robert T. Eberhardt

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