Lower extremity arterial disease
By: edited by Dennis G. Caralis and George L. Bakris.
Contributors: Caralis, Dennis G.; Bakris, George L., 1952-
Series: Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Leg -- Blood-vessels -- Diseases.; Arteries -- Diseases.; Vascular Diseases -- diagnosis.; Vascular Diseases -- therapy.; Arteries -- physiopathology.; Lower Extremity -- physiopathology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Claudication : clinical diagnosis and differential diagnosis / Dennis G. Caralis; value: Noninvasive diagnostic evaluation of peripheral arterial disease / Nicholas Labropoulos and Apostolos K. Tassiopoulos; value: Smoking and smoking cessation / Albert Bellg and Aristides N. Mavridis; value: Peripheral arterial disease and diabetes / George L. Bakris; value: Hyperlipidemia in peripheral arterial disease / Ambika Babu, C.R. Kannan, and Theodore Mazzone; value: Hypertension and peripheral vascular disease / Anjula Gandhi, Jay Garg, and George L. Bakris; value: Physical inactivity is a risk factor for lower extremity arterial disease and coronary heart disease / Dennis G. Caralis and Stamatis Dimitropoulos; value: Pathogenesis of atheroslerotic vascular disease / Bassem Jamil Basha, George L. Bakris, and James R. Sowers; value: Lower extremity arterial disease coexisting with coronary artery disease : management and prognosis / Dennis G. Caralis; value: Medical therapy of claudication and lower extremity arterial disease / Dennis G. Caralis; value: Exercise therapy for low extremity arterial disease / Peter F. Kokkinos; value: Endovascular strategies for management of claudication and lower extremity arterial disease / Michael C. Brunner and Dennis G. Caralis; value: Severe lower extremity arterial disease : limb salvage and revascularization failure / Chad E. Jacobs and Walter J. McCarthy.