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...

Table of Contents:

• Claudication
• Noninvasive Diagnostic Evaluation of Peripheral Arterial Disease
• Smoking and Smoking Cessation
• Peripheral Arterial Disease and Diabetes
• Hyperlipidemia in Peripheral Arterial Disease
• Hypertension and Peripheral Vascular Disease
• Physical Inactivity is a Risk Factor for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease and Coronary Heart Disease
• Pathogenesis of Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease
• Lower Extremity Arterial Disease Co-Existing With Coronary Artery Disease
• Medical Therapy of Claudication and Lower Extremity Arterial Disease
• Exercise Therapy for Lower Extremity Arterial Disease
• Endovascular Strategies for Management of Claudication and Lower Extremity Arterial Disease
• Severe Lower Extremity Arterial Disease.