Lower Extremity Arterial Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Caralis, Dennis G. (Editor), Bakris, George L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Series: Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases
• Subjects: Medicine.; Vascular surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Vascular Surgery.

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...