TY - BOOK ID - 5450885 TI - Lower extremity arterial disease AU - Caralis, Dennis G. AU - Bakris, George L. PY - 2005 SN - 9781588295545 1588295540 9781592598816 9786610359387 1280359382 1592598811 PB - Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, DB - UniCat KW - Vascular Diseases KW - Arteries KW - Lower Extremity KW - Leg KW - Artères KW - diagnosis KW - therapy KW - physiopathology KW - Blood-vessels KW - Diseases KW - Maladies KW - Arteries -- Diseases. KW - Leg -- Blood-vessels -- Diseases. KW - Diagnosis KW - Extremities KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Blood Vessels KW - Cardiovascular Diseases KW - Body Regions KW - Cardiovascular System KW - Anatomy KW - Surgery - General and By Type KW - Medicine KW - Surgery & Anesthesiology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Diseases. KW - Extremities, Lower KW - Extremity, Lower KW - Legs KW - Limb, Lower KW - Limb, Pelvic KW - Lower extremities KW - Lower extremity KW - Lower limb KW - Lower limbs KW - Pelvic limb KW - Pelvic limbs KW - Medicine. KW - Vascular surgery. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Vascular Surgery. KW - Extremities (Anatomy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5450885 AB - Although associated with coronary heart disease and generalized arteriosclerosis in a large number of patients, lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) is a disease process by itself that only one in four patients will survive more than 10 years. Approximately 10 million men and women in the United States suffer from LEAD. In Lower Extremity Arterial Disease, leaders in the fields of cardiovascular medicine, hypertension, vascular surgery, vascular radiology, and vascular physiology join forces to comprehensively review the state-of-the-art concerning atherosclerosis of the arteries of the legs and feet. The authors discuss in detail LEAD's primary symptom-claudication-an intermittent pain in the leg or foot while walking, its predisposing factors, the current diagnostic methodologies, the impressive advances in the therapeutic armamentarium, and the need to screen for co-existing coronary artery disease. Additional chapters describe cutting-edge noninvasive angiography and vascular flow studies, specific drug therapy for claudication, regression of atherosclerosis therapy, gene therapy, and drug-eluting stents for peripheral arterial disease. The authors also examine the epidemiology of LEAD, the effects of smoking and effective smoking cessation programs, its pathogenesis and its association with lipid abnormalities and hypertension, aggressive risk factor modification, and the need to measure the ankle-brachial index of every patient over 45. Authoritative and up-to-date, Lower Extremity Arterial Disease offers family physicians, cardiologists, internists, radiologists, and cardiovascular surgeons a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of LEAD, ranging from diagnostic methodologies and pharmacotherapy to aggressive risk factor modification, transcatheter therapeutics, and gene therapy. ER -