Tobacco Use in Peripheral Artery Disease

Peripheral Artery Disease Surgical Technique and Peripheral Artery Disease

Invasive treatment for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) has changed dramatically. Medicare claims data from 1996 to 2006 reveal an almost doubling of lower-extremity vascular procedures: The use of endovascular repair increased 3-fold, bypass surgery decreased 42%, and the amputation rate decreased by 29%.1 For patients admitted to hospital for PAD between 1996 and 2005, the likeli...

Peripheral Artery Disease Percutaneous Treatment of Peripheral Artery Disease

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty is a minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease who suffer from intermittent claudication or critical limb ischemia. The main advantages of the endovascular approach are a low complication rate ranging between 0.5% and 4%, a high technical success rate approaching 90% even in long occlusions, and an acceptable cl...

Peripheral Artery Disease

749 Endovascular therapy to relieve intermittent claudication or critical limb ischemia in patients with lowerextremity peripheral artery disease is now firmly established as an alternative to surgical revascularization. The advent of novel technologies allows percutaneous interventions of increasingly complex arterial disease previously reserved for surgical interventions. Although the durabil...

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Peripheral Arterial Disease Medical Therapy in Peripheral Artery Disease

The epidemiology of peripheral artery disease (PAD) is well described and related to age and, in particular, the risk factors of diabetes mellitus and smoking. Recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found a 5.9% prevalence in subjects 40 years of age resulting in an estimated prevalence of 7.2 million affected individuals in the United States.1 These subjects have...