Main description:

This book examines new technologies (device and pharmacologic) that have evolved over the past few years in treating peripheral arterial disease. Chapters offer optimal strategies to treat PAD, supported by peer-reviewed data. The pillars of this strategy will focus on (a) changing vessel compliance to allow better lumen expansion, (b) less recoil and dissections, and (c) less bailout stenting. Chapters also review embolic protection devices and apply the adjunctive use of anti-proliferative therapy to maintain good long term outcomes. In addition, the book reviews drug coated balloons and drug eluting stent technologies and other means of drug delivery into the vessel wall. The goal of this book is to discuss all these emerging technologies under the strategy of treating patients with the focus on both acute and long term outcomes. Featuring world renown experts, this book offers a critical and comprehensive overview of the current data and future directions that would pave the way for optimal PAD management.

Peripheral Arterial Interventions is an essential resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students in cardiology, radiology, vascular surgery, primary care, and health promotion and disease prevention as well as internal and vascular medicine specialists.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Atherosclerosis and inflammation in Peripheral Arterial DiseaseChapter 2. Epidemiology and Public Health Implications of Peripheral Arterial DiseaseChapter 3. Risk factors and Outcomes of Patients with Peripheral Arterial DiseaseChapter 4. Pharmacologic Interventions in Patients with Peripheral Arterial DiseaseChapter 5. The Role of Exercise in Managing the PAD patientChapter 6. Vessel Compliance, Barotrauma and Dissections with Endovascular Therapy of the PAD patientChapter 7. Femoropopliteal Dissections and Their Impact on Procedural and Long Term OutcomesChapter 8. The Role of Atherectomy in Vessel Prepping Prior to Definitive Endovascular Treatment of the PAD patientChapter 9. Lithoplasty of severe calcified diseaseChapter 10. Specialty balloons and Vessel PreppingChapter 11. The FLEX atherotome role in reducing dissections and stentingChapter 12. Distal embolization in treating PADChapter 13. Drug coated balloons in infrainguinal arterial interventionsChapter 14. Iliac artery Disease ManagementChapter 15. Drug Eluting Stents in PAD managementChapter 16. Infrapopliteal Artery Interventions in Critical Limb Ischemia PatientsChapter 17. Reducing the Metal Burden in the infrainguinal arteries: Tack Endovascular System and Spot StentingChapter 18. Approach to Chronic Total OcclusionsChapter 19. Thrombotic Infrainguinal Arterial Disease: Mechanical and Pharmacological Approaches to TherapyChapter 20. Endovascular Management of Aortic AneurysmsChapter 21. Putting it All Together: An algorithm based approach to managing the PAD patient.